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'One of the best expressions of his unstoppable flow of comic invention' The TimesThe 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 . . .The post was an old thing, of course, but it was so old that it had magically become new again.Moist von Lipwig is a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put the ailing postal service of Ankh-Morpork the Discworld s city-state back on its feet.It s a tough decision.The post is a creaking old institution, overshadowed by new technology. But there are people who still believe in it, and Moist must become one of them if he's going to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, an evil chairman . . . and a midnight killer.Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.Perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope . . .____________________The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Going Postal is the first book in the Moist von Lipwig series.

'You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention, realising that you are in the presence of a true original' The TimesThe 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 . . . 'Trousers. That's the secret...Put on trousers and the world changes. We walk different. We act different. I see these girls and I think: idiots! Get yourself some trousers!' Women belong in the kitchen - everyone knows that. Not in jobs, pubs or indeed trousers, and certainly not on the front line. Nonetheless, Polly Perks has to become a boy in a hurry if she wants to find her missing brother in the army. Cutting off her hair and wearing the trousers is easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape takes more time.There s a war on. There's always a war on, and Polly and her fellow raw recruits are suddenly in the thick of it. All they have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for coffee. It's time to make a stand. ________________The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Monstrous Regiment is a standalone novel.