{"product_id":"interesting-times-by-terry-pratchett-9780552167543","title":"Interesting Times","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe seventeenth Discworld novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'Funny, delightfully inventive, and refuses to lie down in its genre'\u003c\/em\u003e Observer\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe 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...\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is a curse. They say - may you live in interesting times.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e'May you live in interesting times'\u003c\/em\u003e is the worst thing one can wish on a citizen of Discworld, especially on the distinctly unmagical Rincewind, who has had far too much perilous excitement in his life and can't even spell \u003cem\u003ewizard\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo when a request for a \u003cem\u003eGreat Wizzard\u003c\/em\u003e arrives in Ankh-Morpork via carrier albatross from the faraway Counterweight Continent, it's the endlessly unlucky Rincewind who's sent as emissary. The oldest (and most heavily fortified) empire on the Disc is in turmoil, and Chaos is building. And, for some incomprehensible reason, someone believes Rincewind will have a mythic role in the ensuing war and wholesale bloodletting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere are too many heroes already in the world, but there is only one Rincewind. And he owes it to the world to keep that one alive for as long as possible.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003chr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Discworld novels can be read in any order but \u003cem\u003eInteresting Times\u003c\/em\u003e is the fifth book in the Wizards series.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46336499253484,"sku":"9780552167543","price":24.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/15952073482384.jpg?v=1743682083","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/products\/interesting-times-by-terry-pratchett-9780552167543","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}