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A paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the sixth book in the Wizards series, part of the Discworld novels.

‘A minor masterpiece. I laughed so much I fell from my armchair’ Time Out

‘One of Sir Terry’s best… written, like all of his works, with humour, intelligence, and kindness’ 5-star reader review

‘Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.’

Rincewind, inept wizard and reluctant hero, has found himself magically stranded on the Discworld’s last continent.

It’s hot. It’s dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one believes in any more. Practically everything that’s not poisonous is venomous. But it’s the best bloody place in the world, all right?

And in a few days, it will die. The only thing standing between the last continent and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, and he can’t even spell wizard.

Still . . . no worries, eh?

The Last Continent is the sixth book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

Praise for the Discworld series:

‘[Pratchett’s] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction’ Mail on Sunday

‘Pratchett is a master storyteller’ Guardian

‘One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest’ George R.R. Martin

‘One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone’ Daily Express

‘One of the most consistently funny writers around’ Ben Aaronovitch

‘Masterful and brilliant’ Fantasy & Science Fiction

‘Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own… he is a satirist of enormous talent … incredibly funny … compulsively readable’ The Times

‘The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse’ The Sunday Telegraph

‘Nothing short of magical’ Chicago Tribune

‘Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns’ SFX

‘[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world…There’s never been anything quite like it’ Evening Standard

Publisher Review

The humour sparkles as brightly as ever' * The Times * A minor masterpiece. I laughed somuch I fell from my armchair' * Time Out * Delightful...gleeful and downright mischevious. The pleasures on the page are so quirkily seductive. Puts one in mind of one of the greatest comic writers of them all PG Wodehouse' * Sunday Telegraph * A cross between Tolkien and a gentler, more benign Tom Sharpe. * Sunday Telegraph * 'Pratchett's humour takes logic past the point of absurdity and round again, but it is his unexpected insights into the human morality that make the Discworld series stand out' * Times Literary Supplement *