A near fine book, with a minor bump to top edge and a few small and inconspicuous indentations to lower board, otherwise nice and clean and free from any previous owner names or inscriptions. After Conina and Nijel travel to the University looking for Rincewind, Coin uses his magic to make them forget him and live happily ever after together. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there? Rincewind has survived a string of misadventures, including falling off the edge of the world—which is no mean feat when it’s flying through space on the back of a turtle and held up by four elephants.

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Once again the cowardly wizard must embark on a quest: to deliver a precious artefact – the very embodiment of magic itself – halfway across the Disc to safety. They convinced him that he wasn’t mad because, if he was mad, that left no word at all to describe some of the people he met.

He left school aged seventeen, and worked as a journalist for his local newspaper, the Bucks Free Press.

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Because John the Baptist ate those, according to Matthew 3:4 (also Mark 1:6): "And the same John had his raiment of camel's hair, and a leathern girdle about his loins; and his meat was locusts and wild honey. Queen Elizabeth II popularized the counter phrase, "annus horribilus" in 1992 after a particularly miserable year for the royal family which involved scandals, divorce and a major fire at Windsor Castle. In France, and other countries which observe Roman Law, the task of the court in a criminal case is to arrive at the truth, as far as it can be perceived by human eyes, and the business of establishing the outlines of the truth falls not on a jury, which is strictly asked to enter a judgement, but upon a juge d’instruction. It rides through space on the back of four elephants which, in turn, are standing on the shell of an enormous turtle.Eight years later, Virrid Wayzygoose, the Archchancellor-designate of Unseen University in Ankh-Morpork, is murdered before his induction by Coin, who then forces his way into the university's Great Hall.

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Signed by Terry Pratchett~~Fine 1st print 2014 hardback, signed with hologram and authenticity stamp to title page. In the late twentieth century, he became more widely appreciated, and in the twenty-first century he has been celebrated in exhibitions around the world. They join up with Creosote and Conina, the latter immediately falling in love with Nijel, and they encounter Abrim, who had put on the Archchancellor's hat hoping to gain power from it, only to be possessed instead.The dust jacket, protected in a clear, removable cover is in near fine condition except for two very small creases to the bottom edge of the spine. Unseen University, the most magical establishment on the Discworld , has finally got its wish: the emergence of a wizard more powerful than they’ve ever seen. They seemed prepared to make the world the way they wanted it or die in the attempt, and the trouble with dying in the attempt was that you died in the attempt.

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Tom Hutchinson, writing for The Times, thought that Sourcery presents a "memorable account of how we adapt power before it adapts us" and "may well be considered [Pratchett's] masterpiece. Napoleon said to his troops before the Battle of the Pyramids in Egypt in 1798: "From the summit of these pyramids, forty centuries look down upon you". The English word 'assassins' was originally used to denote a group of fanatical Ismailis (a Shi'ite Muslim sect) who, between 1094 and 1273, worked for the creation of a new Fatimid caliphate, targeting prominent individuals.Just when he thought he had it in his grasp his life would suddenly become full of near-terminal interest. The Daily Mail said Sourcery was the "most entertaining science-fantasy discovery in many years", whilst The Guardian said "One turns with relief … to the stylish magic of Sourcery. There are eight levels of wizardry on the Disc; after sixteen years Rincewind has failed to achieve even level one. Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983.