The Discworld Bestiary - Paul Kidby

The Discworld Bestiary - Paul Kidby

Paul Kidby

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Published 15 October 2026

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  • Pages · 160 pages
  • Publication Date · 15/10/2026
  • Genre · Fiction: special features
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Step into the weird and wonderful world of Sir Terry Pratchett's iconic Discworld universe with this fully illustrated guide to its most curious, dangerous, and downright baffling creatures. Discover the best way to care for the Terrible Man-Eating Sloth of Clup, the eating habits of the Ambiguous Puzuma, and marvel at the startling prevalence of ominous ducks in cosmic matters. Wriggling with insights and crawling with wisdom, The Discworld Bestiary is packed with extra advice from Rincewind, Unseen University's latest (and reluctant) adjunct professor of Perplexing Beasts and curator of its Curiobiological Museum. With beautiful illustrations - including new artwork - from Paul Kidby, Pratchett's longtime artistic collaborator, this is the perfect gift book for fans of Pratchett's bestselling fantasy series, Discworld. Praise for the Discworld series:'Sir Terry Pratchett is the single greatest writer of the twenty-first century' Brandon Sanderson'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin`One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch'[Pratchett's] 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 those rare writers who appeals to everyone' Daily Express`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'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 world.There's never been anything quite like it' Evening Standard

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