Terry Pratchett

Only You Can Save Mankind is the first novel in the Johnny Maxwell trilogy of children's books and fifth young adult novel by Terry Pratchett, author of the Discworld sequence of books. The following novels in the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy are Johnny and the Dead and Johnny and the Bomb. The setting of the novels in the …

'Look after the dead', said the priests, 'and the dead will look after you.' Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your treasury is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental …

Pub Date: 2014-10-28 Pages: 384 Language: English Publisher: Anchor Books NATIONAL BESTSELLER Steam is rising over Discworld Mister Simnel has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all the elements--.... earth. air. fire. and water -. and its soon drawing astonished crowds To the …

'Inside every living person is a dead person waiting to get out.' Death has been fired by the Auditors of Reality for the heinous crime of developing . . . a personality. Sent to live like everyone else, Death takes a new name and begins working as a farmhand. He's got the scythe already, after all. And for humanity, …