The Colour Of Magic: The first book in Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld series

<p><b>'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' </b><i>Mail on Sunday</i></p><p><b>NAMED AS ONE OF THE BBC'S 100 MOST INSPIRING NOVELS </b></p><p><b>The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . . </b><br />____________________</p><p><i>In the beginning there was…a turtle.</i></p><p>Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the <b>Discworld</b>, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different. </p><p>Particularly as it’s carried though space on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown). It plays by different rules.</p><p>But then, some things are the same everywhere. The Disc’s very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the world’s first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land.</p><p>Unfortunately, the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard…<br />____________________</p><p><i>The Discworld novels can be read in any order but <b>The Colour of Magic</b> is the first book in the Wizards series.</i></p>