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A special hardback gift edition of classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, a standalone Discworld novel.

‘You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention, realising that you are in the presence of a true original’ The Times

‘Another marvellous tale by the king of fantasy’ 5-star reader review

‘That’s the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They’re all guys!’

In the small yet aggressive country of Borogravia, there are strict rules citizens must follow.

For a start, women belong in the kitchen – not in jobs, pubs, or indeed trousers. And certainly not on the front line.

Polly Perks has to become a boy in a hurry if she wants to find her missing brother in the army. Cutting off her hair and wearing the trousers is easy. Going to war however, is not.

Polly and her fellow raw recruits are suddenly in the thick of a losing battle. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee.

It’s time to make a stand.

The Discworld novels can be read in any order, but Monstrous Regiment is a standalone.

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

“‘Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of enormous talent … incredibly funny … compulsively readable.'” * The Times * “‘A true original among contemporary writers – a fantasist who loves naff humour and silly names, and yet whose absurd world is, at heart, a serious portrait of the jingoistic fears that keep us at each other’s throats.'” * The Times * “‘The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody as opposed to derivative manipulation of past motifs, who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences.'” — A.S. Byatt * The New York Times *