Weaving together a "Discworld" novelette with scientific commentary on the evolution and development of the human mind, culture, language, art and science, this book presents an original view of the world we live in.

The science of discworld Tome 2 ; the globe

Ce pays, on l'appelle le Causse : une succession de collines vertes peuplées de moutons. C'est là que vit Tiphaine Patraque, neuf ans, fille d'une longue lignée de bergers. Elle a décidé qu'elle deviendrait sorcière.Les épreuves ne lui manqueront pas : un monstre dans la rivière, un cavalier sans tête sur le chemin du village... et la disparition de son petit frère.Armée d'une poêle à frire, du livre de magie de sa mémé (Les Maladies du mouton) et d'une détermination farouche, elle part affronter la reine des fées.Seule ? Non. Miyards ! Avec le concours des Nac mac Feegle, les ch'tits hommes libres à la peau bleu, voleurs, bagarreurs, ivrognes et belliqueux.Ni rwa ! Ni rinne ! Ni djeus ! Ni maets ! Fini de s'faire avwar !

Les Ch'tits hommes libres

Blousé, Vimaire. Dame Sybil, son épouse aimante, lui impose quinze jours de congés à la campagne dans le manoir familial. La vie de hobereau, rien de folichon pour le commissaire divisionnaire du Guet d'Ankh-Morpork, non plus que la déférence servile qu'on lui témoigne, à lui qui tient pour article de foi que les hommes sont tous les mêmes le pantalon baissé.
La tradition le veut, le flic en vacances n'a pas ouvert sa valise que le premier cadavre lui saute à la figure. Mais ce n'est pas un meurtre ordinaire qui attend Vimaire, c'est un crime contre l'existence et la dignité d'une espèce entière.
Qu'importe s'il est hors de sa juridiction, si les repères lui manquent dans le monde rural et si l'on s'acharne à le mener en bateau, la justice doit passer.

Les annales du Disque-monde Tome 39 : coup de tabac

Jour de fête au pays de Lancre : Vérence (ex-membre de la Guilde des Fous) et Magrat (ex-sorcière), le couple royal, vont baptiser leur petite fille. Vérence a invité bon nombre de familles nobles du coin mais il a commis une erreur de taille en conviant les Margopyr, vieille famille de vampyres du royaume voisin. Lassés de leur vieux château, ces vampyres amateurs de vin rouge ont bien l'intention de s'installer à demeure à Lancre. Les sorcières Mémé, Nounou et Agnès sont décidées à leur faire la peau. Mais comment combattre des vampyres qui mangent des petits fours à l'ail et se baignent dans l'eau bénite ?

Carpe Jugulum

Terry Pratchett's profoundly irreverent novels are consistent number one bestseller in England, where they have catapulted him into the highest echelons of parody next to Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut, Douglas Adams, and Carl Hiaasen.In this Discworld installment, Death comes to Mort with an offer he can't refuse -- especially since being, well, dead isn't compulsory. As Death's apprentice, he'll have free board and lodging, use of the company horse, and he won't need time off for family funerals. The position is everything Mort thought he'd ever wanted, until he discovers that this perfect job can be a killer on his love life.

Les Annales Du {Disque Monde}:  Mortimer

____________________ COMING TO AMAZON PRIME ON 31ST MAY - STARRING DAVID TENNANT, MICHAEL SHEEN AND BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH 'Marvellously benign, ridiculously inventive and gloriously funny' Guardian  ____________________ 'Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right' According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter Witch, Judgement Day is almost upon us and the world's going to end in a week . . . 

Now people have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it's only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea? 

You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax. Or you could just try to do something about it.

It's a predicament that Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon now finds themselves in. They've been living amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and, truth be told, have grown rather fond of the lifestyle and, in all honesty, are not actually looking forward to the coming Apocalypse. 

And then there's the small matter that someone appears to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .

GOOD OMENS

Arch-swindler Moist Van Lipwig never believed his confidence crimes were hanging offenses - until he found himself with a noose tightly around his neck, dropping through a trapdoor, and falling into...a government job?By all rights, Moist should have met his maker. Instead, it's Lord Vetinari, supreme ruler of Ankh-Morpork, who promptly offers him a job as Postmaster. Since his only other option is a nonliving one, Moist accepts the position - and the hulking golem watchdog who comes along with it, just in case Moist was considering abandoning his responsibilities prematurely. Getting the moribund Postal Service up and running again, however, may be a near-impossible task, what with literally mountains of decades-old undelivered mail clogging every nook and cranny of the broken-down post office building; and with only a few creaky old postmen and one rather unstable, pin-obsessed youth available to deliver it. Worse still, Moist could swear the mail is talking to him. Worst of all, it means taking on the gargantuan, money-hungry Grand Trunk clacks communication monopoly and its bloodthirsty piratical head, Mr. Reacher Gilt.But it says on the building Neither Rain Nor Snow Nor Glom of Nit...Inspiring words (admittedly, some of the bronze letters have been stolen), and for once in his wretched life Moist is going to fight. And if the bold and impossible are what's called for, he'll do it - in order to move the mail, continue breathing, get the girl, and specially deliver that invaluable commodity that every human being (not to mention troll, dwarf, and, yes, even golem) requires: hope.

Timbré (Les annales du Disque-Monde)

IT''S A RAT-EAT-RAT WORLD . . .

Every town on Discworld knows the stories about rats and pipers, and Maurice - a streetwise tomcat - leads a band of educated ratty friends (and a stupid kid) on a nice little earner. Piper plus rats equals lots and lots of money.

Until they run across someone playing a different tune.

Now he and his rats must learn a new concept: evil . . .

THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS

'A foot on the neck is nine points of the law'There are many who say that the art of diplomacy is an intricate and complex dance. There are others who maintain that it's merely a matter of who carries the biggest stick. The oldest and most inscrutable (not to mention heavily fortified) empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes; warlords are struggling for power - and what the nation wants, to avoid terrible doom for everyone, is a wizard. Rincewind is not the Disc’s premier wizard – in fact, he can’t even spell ‘wizard’ – but no-one specified whether competence was an issue. And they do have a very big stick…Mighty Battles! Revolution! Death! War! (And his sons Terror and Panic and daughter Clancy).Alternate cover edition for ISBN 9781407034966

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