Discworld · Book 29

Night Watch

Published
1 November 2002
Pages
400
ISBN-13
9780753140505
Type
novel
Cover of Night Watch

About this book

"Night Watch" (2002) continues Terry Pratchett's Discworld at 400 pages, the 29th novel in a series that mixes straight fantasy trappings with sharp satire of policing, religion, war and belief.

Key facts about Night Watch

Terry Pratchett wrote Night Watch, a novel on our list. It has been out since 1 November 2002. The book has 400 pages.

We list 3 editions of this novel. Since each edition has its own ISBN, search for 9780753140505 to find the main one.

Night Watch is book 29 of 41 in the Discworld series. The series has 41 published books. However, the series starts with The Colour of Magic (1983). The Shepherd's Crown is the latest book in the series with a full release date, out on 27 August 2015.

Additionally, Terry Pratchett writes The Bromeliad Trilogy, The Johnny Maxwell Trilogy and The Long Earth as separate series. Those series sit on our fantasy and science fiction shelves. Meanwhile, The Long Cosmos is the latest published Terry Pratchett book on file, from 30 June 2016.

About Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett was an English author whose Discworld series became one of the most beloved and best-selling comic fantasy works in the language, running to forty-one novels published between 1983 and his death in 2015. See every Terry Pratchett book in order.

Its place in Discworld

Night Watch is book 29 in the Discworld series. It follows The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents. It is followed by The Wee Free Men. See the full Discworld reading order.

Discworld is Terry Pratchett's forty-one-novel comic masterpiece, set on a flat world carried through space on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant turtle. What begins in The Colour of Magic (1983) as straight fantasy parody — an inept wizard escorting the Disc's first tourist — evolves into something far richer: a mirror held up to our own world, where Pratchett uses dragons, golems and the anthropomorphic personification of Death (WHO SPEAKS LIKE THIS and is fond of cats) to write about policing…

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