Pratchett’s Snuff Flies Off Shelves

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Terry Pratchett’s 50th novel, Snuff, has become one of the fastest selling novels since records began, selling over 54,000 copies in three day.

Pre-orders and a £5 deal at Tesco helped catapult Snuff into the record books, the biggest since Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol in 2009.

Transworld managing director Larry Finlay said “Terry Pratchett is now firmly established as one of the nation’s most important and widely read authors, with so much to say about the world in which we live. I couldn’t be more delighted that with Snuff, Terry now joins a very select band of record-breakers.”

Snuff is Terry Pratchett’s most recent foray into the Discworld series, a literary phenomenon that has been going strong for 28 years now. The story follows one of Discworld’s best established characters, policeman Sam Vimes, into fresh territory. With wife and son on hand, Vimes experiences his first holiday in the countryside.

Along with a murder mystery, we are presented with various angles on the topic of poo, an interesting introduction to the goblin race and their peculiarities and some wide-ranging social critique.