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Hogfather: (Discworld Novel 20)

`Has the energy of The Hitch-Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland` Sunday TimesThe Discworld is very much like our own – if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . OH, THERE HAS TO BE SOMETHING IN THE STOCKING THAT MAKES A NOISE, said Death, OTHERWISE WHAT IS 4:30 A.M. FOR?It`s the night before Hogswatch. And it`s too quiet.Superstition makes things work in the Discworld and undermining it can have Consequences. It`s just not right to find Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho . . . It`s the last night of the year, the time is turning, and if Susan, Gothic governess and Death`s granddaughter (sort of), doesn`t sort everything out by morning, there won`t be a morning. Ever again . . . The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Hogfather is the fourth book in the Death series; a festive feast of darkness (but with jolly robots and tinsel too).