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Wintersmith: A Story of Discworld
by Pratchett, Terry
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +/very good +
- ISBN 10
- 0385609841
- ISBN 13
- 9780385609845
- Seller
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About This Item
London: Doubleday, 2006. First UK edition. Hardcover. Very Good +/very good +. Paul Kidby. Some creasing to top of spine on DJ. TIght white pages and dj is unclipped. No markings or inscriptions. From the DJ blurb: " Tiffany Aching put one foot wrong, made one little mistake... And now the spirit of winter is in love with her. He gives her roses and icebergs, says it with avalanches and showers her with snowflakes - which is tough when you're thirteen, but also just a little bit... cool!... And just because the Wintersmith wants to marry you is no excuse for neglecting the chores. So she must look after Miss Treason, who's 113 and has far too many eyes, learn the secret of Boffo, catch Horace the cheese, stop Annagramma Hawkin from becoming an embarrassment to all witches, avoid Nanny Ogg giving her a lecture on sex, stop the gods from seeing her in the bath - Crivens! - oh, yes, and be helped by the Nac Mac Feegles, whether she wants it or not. It's unfair, but as Granny Weatherwax says no one ever said it was going to be fair. And if Tiffany doesn't work it all out, there will never be another springtime... A glorious and exhuberant fantasy tale, crackling with energy and humour Wintersmith is the third tale in a sequence about Tiffany Aching and the Wee Free Men. discworld fantasy Tiffany Aching Wee Free Men weatherwax
Synopsis
At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland.At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil.At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen. . . .But the Wintersmith isn't exactly a boy. He is Winter itself—snow, gales, icicles—all of it. When he has a crush on Tiffany, he may make her roses out of ice, but his nature is blizzards and avalanches. And he wants Tiffany to stay in his gleaming, frozen world. Forever.Tiffany will need all her cunning to make it to Spring. She'll also need her friends, from junior witches to the legendary Granny Weatherwax. They—Crivens! Tiffany will need the Wee Free Men too! She'll have the help of the bravest, toughest, smelliest pictsies ever to be banished from Fairyland—whether she wants it or not.It's going to be a cold, cold season, because if Tiffany doesn't survive until Spring——Spring won't come.
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- Bookseller
- Interesting Tomes
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 16
- Title
- Wintersmith
- Author
- Pratchett, Terry
- Illustrator
- Paul Kidby
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Jacket Condition
- very good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First UK edition
- ISBN 10
- 0385609841
- ISBN 13
- 9780385609845
- Publisher
- Doubleday
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2006
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