The Last Continent

''Anything you do in the past changes the future. The tiniest little actions have huge consequences. You might tread on an ant now and it might entirely prevent someone from being born in the future.'' Rincewind, inept wizard and reluctant hero, has found himself magically stranded on the Discworld''s last continent. It''s hot. It''s dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one believes in any more. Practically everything that''s not poisonous is venomous. But it''s the best bloody place in the world, all right? And in a few days, it will die. The only thing standing between the last continent and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, and he can''t even spell wizard. Still . . . no worries, eh? ''A minor masterpiece. I laughed so much I fell from my armchair'' Time Out ''A master storyteller'' A. S. Byatt The Last Continent is the sixth book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

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 which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any. www.terrypratchettbooks.com