Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, the first book in the City Watch series, part of the Discworld novels.
'This is one of Pratchett's best books. Hilarious and highly recommended' The Times
Possibly the funniest book ever written 5-star reader review
'Noble dragons don't have friends. The nearest they can get to the idea is an enemy who is still alive.'
The city of Ankh-Morpork is in turmoil, its citizens revolting. Again.
A shadowy secret brotherhood has summoned a dragon to spread terror throughout the city, intent on overthrowing the Patrician and ruling in his place. Too bad the dragon has ideas of its own ...
It's up to Captain Sam Vimes and the ramshackle Night Watch to stop it. Only problem is, the Watch are more used to dealing with mobs than dragons.
And if they can't bring down this fire-breathing tyrant and reinstate their own, slightly less dangerous one, Ankh-Morpork might be lost. For ever...
Guards! Guards! is the first book in the City Watch series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.
Praise for the Discworld series:
'[ Pratchetts] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday
Pratchett is a master storyteller Guardian
'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin
'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone Daily Express
One of the most consistently funny writers around Ben Aaronovitch
Masterful and brilliant Fantasy & Science Fiction
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
The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph
Nothing short of magical Chicago Tribune
'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX
[ Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our worldThere's never been anything quite like it Evening Standard
