![]() ![]() The Colour of Magic is the first novel in Terry Pratchett's acclaimed Discworld series, of which some 20 million copies have been sold. But if the person charged with maintaining that survival in the face of robbers, mercenaries, and, well, Death, is a spectacularly inept wizard, a little logic might turn out to be a very good idea. Its very existence is about to be threatened by a strange new blight: the arrival of the first tourist, upon whose survival rests the peace and prosperity of the land. But just because the Disc is different doesn't mean that some things don't stay the same. Certainly it refuses to succumb to the quaint notion that universes are ruled by pure logic and the harmony of numbers. Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place that might sound and smell very much like our own, but that looks completely different. BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually Pirates of the Caribbean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I The Phantom Menace Shaun of the. Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant idiot." The audiobook of The Truth is narrated by Mathew Baynton, star of Ghosts, Yonderland and Horrible Histories. "Twoflower was a tourist, the first ever seen on the Discworld. ![]()
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