'Pratchett's writing is a constant delight. No one mixes the fantastical and the mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of human endeavour'Daily Mail

• 'Pratchett's writing is a constant delight. No one mixes the fantastical and the mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of human endeavour'Daily Mail

• 'Generous, amusing and the ideal boarding point for those who have never visited Discworld'Sunday Telegraph

• 'Vintage Pratchett... Perennially funny...A sharp satire on the futility of war'Metro

• 'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone... He satisfies the need for fast-moving breathtaking plots with entirely satisfying endings, and the equally primitive desire for an alternative world, full of thrills but benign, into which one can step for pleasure and enlivenment'Daily Express

• 'Both his inventiveness and his moral shrewdness seem inexhaustible'