Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld its management is entrusted to the experts: the venerable Monks of History, who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (after all, how much time does a codfish really need?) to places like cities, where harried citizens are forever lamenting, 'Oh where does the time go?' And while everyone always talks about slowing down, one clever soul is about to stop. And he's at his sharpest, most uproarious best in Thief of Time.

As he skewers all aspects of modern life - and especially our sacred cows - Pratchett makes us laugh and challenges us to think. Celebrated as one of the keenest practitioners of satire and parody at work today - alongside Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen - Terry Pratchett commands a loyal and ever-increasing number of readers and appreciative critics from coast to coast in our own country. His novels have reigned supreme on English bestseller lists since before the Iron Lady left Downing Street, and though some things have changed since then, Pratchett, thankfully, continues to pen insightfully irreverent tales set in a world a lot like our own - only different. Already a worldwide sensation and Great Britain's indisputable number one author, this intellectually audacious and effortlessly hilarious writer sold more hardcover books in the United Kingdom during the previous decade than any other living novelist.

It was only a matter of time before Terry Pratchett would win the minds and hearts of America.

Discworld thief of time