Snuff

(Discworld Novel 39)

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Jon Culshaw, Bill Nighy

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Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction

'The jurisdiction of a good man extends to the end of the world.'

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.

He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches; and out of his mind. But never out of guile. Where there is a crime there must be a punishment.

They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.

Vimes is about to uncover the exception.

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Snuff is the eighth book in the City Watch series.

'Snuff is entertaining, with all Pratchett's genius on display' Sunday Express

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Critic reviews

[Discworld is] Warm, silly, compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world... Where other writers are delighted if they come up with just a handful of comic figures with self-sustaining life in them - Don Quixote and Sancho, the three men in the boat, Pooh and Piglet and Eeyore - Pratchettt breeds them by the score...There's never been anything quite like it (Francis Spufford)

Pratchett is a master storyteller. He is endlessly inventive... a master of complex jokes, good bad jokes, good dreadful jokes and a kind of insidious wisdom about human nature... I read his books at a gallop and then reread them every time I am ill or exhausted (A. S. Byatt)

To keep it fresh into the 39th volume of a series deserves a knighthood... Snuff is entertaining, with all Pratchett's genius on display. He still makes you care about his creations and, amid all the funnies, he can turn on the pathos

[Pratchett] is now so good at skewering the banalities and injustices of our world through his fantasy creation balanced on the back of a giant turtle that he could probably do it in his sleep... As effortlessly, generously funny as only Pratchett can be, Snuff doesn't stint on laying bare the darker side of life either. A worthy addition to the Discworld canon

Is there any sign of a falling-off in Sir Terry's extraordinary abilities? No. Not one. This is another brilliant, bravura command performance of comic fantasy. Terry Pratchett with Alzheimer's is still up there with PG Wodehouse. Amazing. Wonderful. Fantastic (Harry Ritchie)

The Discworld novels have always been among the most serious of comedies, the most relevant and real of fantasies... Pratchett has been rightly praised for comic invention and whimsy; he does not always get enough credit for the psychological comedy of embarrassment which makes us blush with self-recognition... at once hilariously cynical and idealistically practical

Terry Pratchett's Discworld remains a joy... [Snuff is] seriously funny... A highly readable, mature comedy, far from the rapid-fire quipping of early Discworld

Superb voice acting

Classic Pratchett but the character of Vimes et al have never been brought so convincingly alive before. I fully intend to seek out more if not all of Jon Culshaw's voice acting work. It would be diminshing to simply label him as narrator. A wonderful pairing of material and actor. Comprehensively recommended.

Comforting read

This bittersweet last book with Sam Vimes as main character is one of my favourite. TP pulls this adventure together so well. Jon Culshaw is absolutely amazing with his narration. I am always impressed by the the way he keeps up with each character. His Nobby Nobbs and Sgt Colon are the best! I will keep revisiting this old favourite, thankfully immortalised as a stellar audiobook.