Pyramids

Discover the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett, a standalone Discworld novel.

Pratchett remains a consistently clever, charming and funny voiceIndependent

‘One of my favourite Discworld books’ 5-star reader review

"Look after the dead," said the priests, "and the dead would look after you."

Young Prince Teppic is sent far away from his desert homeland to the city of Ankh-Morpork for the best education money can buy.

Which just so happens to be at the Assassins Guild.

But when Teppics father dies suddenly, fate takes him away from assassination to something far more unsavoury: politics. Teppic returns home to the small, penniless kingdom of Djelibeybi to take his place as ruler.

It isnt easy, being a teenage pharaoh. As tradition dictates, the new king must build a monumental pyramid to honour his dead father.

But this one might just bankrupt the kingdom, and warp the very fabric of time and space itself . . .

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

Praise for the Discworld series:

[Pratchett’s] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fictionMail on Sunday

‘Pratchett is a master storyteller’ Guardian

One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniestGeorge 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 readableThe 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 turnsSFX

‘[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world…Theres never been anything quite like it’ Evening Standard