“It is a truth universally acknowledged
that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his
suitcase before he finds his first corpse.” So it says on the back cover of
Terry Pratchett’s Snuff, now out as a
paperback from Corgi (£7.99). This is sure to appeal to Discworld fans, as will Miss
Felicity Beedle’s The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett (out this month on
Doubleday at £12.99):
“Vimes' prompt arrival got a nod of
approval from Sybil, who gingerly handed him a new book to read to Young Sam.
Vimes looked at the cover. The title was The World of Poo. When his wife was out of eyeshot he carefully
leafed through it. Well, okay, you had to accept that the world had moved on
and these days fairy stories were probably not going to be about twinkly little
things with wings. As he turned page after page, it dawned on him that whoever
had written this book, they certainly knew what would make kids like Young Sam
laugh until they were nearly sick.”
The World
of Poo is a beautifully designed slim hardcover. It
has all the appearances of a classy children’s book, with colourful; endpapers
and many line drawings, throughout.
“1916: the Western Front. Private
Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear
birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood
and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone?
2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever.
And that's an understatement if ever there was one...”
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