{"product_id":"men-at-arms-9780552167536","title":"Men At Arms : (Discworld Novel 15)","description":"\u003cp\u003eA paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the second book in the City Watch series, part of the Discworld novels.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Funny, wise and mock heroic . . . the best-crafted book I have read all year' Sunday Express\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Pratchett at his best’ 5-star reader review\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'People ought to think for themselves ... The problem is, people only think for themselves if you tell them to.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTimes are a-changing in Ankh-Morpork's Night Watch.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNew recruits have been hired to reflect the city's diversity, including Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance-constable Detritus (a troll), and Lance-constable Angua (a woman ... full moons aside).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat's more, Captain Sam Vimes is getting married and retiring from the Watch. For good. Which is a shame, because no one knows the streets of Ankh-Morpork or its criminal underworld better than him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd someone armed and dangerous has been getting ideas about power and destiny and lost kings, committing a string of seemingly random murders across the city.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe new recruits will need to learn fast ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMen At Arms is the second book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePraise for the Discworld series:\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'[Pratchett’s] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Pratchett is a master storyteller’ Guardian\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone’ Daily Express\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘One of the most consistently funny writers around’ Ben Aaronovitch\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Masterful and brilliant’ Fantasy \u0026amp; Science Fiction\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘Nothing short of magical’ Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘[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\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e**Cover may vary**\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Terry Pratchett\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eScience fiction, Fantasy\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 14 Feb 2013 by Transworld Publishers Ltd.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Terry Pratchett","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57320643527034,"sku":"9780552167536","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0373\/4125\/files\/9780552167536.jpg?v=1790660004","url":"https:\/\/belfastbooks.co.uk\/products\/men-at-arms-9780552167536","provider":"Belfast Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}