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

‘Genius . . . deals with death with startling originality’ New York Times

‘Terry Pratchett at his best. Fantastic book’ 5-star reader review

‘This didn’t feel like magic. It felt a lot older than that. It felt like music.’

Being sixteen is always difficult, but it’s even more so when there’s a Death in the family.

Susan hasn’t exactly had a normal upbringing, with a skeletal grandfather who rides a white horse and wields a scythe.

When Death decides he needs a well-earned break, he leaves Susan to take over the family business. The only problem is, everyone mistakes her for the Tooth Fairy . . .

Well, not the only problem. There’s a new, addictive music in Discworld. It’s lawless. It changes people. It’s got a beat and you can dance to it.

It’s called Music With Rocks In. And it won’t fade away . . .

Soul Music is the third book in the Death 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

'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 * 'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' * Mail on Sunday * 'The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a multifarious genius for strong parody ... who deals with death with startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences' * New York Times * 'Very clever madcap satire which has universal appeal. If you haven't tried him, this is a fun one to start with' * Today * 'Pratchett lures classical themes and popular mythologies into the dark corners of his imagination, gets them drunk and makes them do things you wouldn't dream of doing with an Oxford don' * Daily Mail *