The Truth
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  • Published: 6 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804990452
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $22.99
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The Truth

(Discworld Novel 25)

Formats & editions
Paperback
6 Jun 2023
Paperback
2 Dec 2013
EBook
1 May 2010
Audiobook
16 Feb 2023
Audiobook
4 Jan 2007
Hardback
15 Nov 2016
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The 25th Discworld novel - revamped with a fresh bold look targeting a new generation of fantasy fans.

'A lie can run round the world before the truth can get its boots on.'

William de Worde has somehow found himself editor of Ankh-Morpork's first newspaper. Well, with a name like that . . .

Launched into the world of investigative journalism, alongside reporter Sacharissa Cripslock, William soon learns that the news is a risky business. For a start, his colleagues include a band of axe-wielding dwarfs and a recovering vampire with a life-threatening passion for flash photography.

It's a big news week: the most powerful man in the city has been arrested, leaving Ankh-Morpork without a leader. And a dangerous criminal organisation will do anything to control the story . . .

'An unmitigated delight . . . very, very funny' The Times

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but The Truth is a standalone.

  • Published: 6 June 2023
  • ISBN: 9781804990452
  • Imprint: Penguin
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $22.99
Categories:

About the author

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. He died in March 2015.

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Also by Terry Pratchett

Tales of Wizards and Dragons
The Colour Of Magic
Guards! Guards!
Good Omens
A Stroke of the Pen
Mort
Equal Rites
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Praise for The Truth

Pratchett has found his own way of turning lead into gold, and by that I don't just mean that he's written 25 bestsellers in 17 years, but that every one he has written is a treasure.

Guardian

Fluent, intricately plotted and sometimes very funny.

Daily Telegraph

He would be amusing in any form, and his spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction.

Mail on Sunday

Pratchett fans are in for a treat with his 25th Discworld novel.

Daily Express

The Truth is an unmitigated delight and very, very funny . . . The pace is compelling but he never lets his tale descend into simple farce.

The Times
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