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First published in Great Britain
in 2008 by Doubleday
an imprint of Transworld Publishers

Copyright © Terry and Lyn Pratchett and Jacqueline Simpson 2008
Illustrations © Paul Kidby 2008

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‘The Ship of Death’ from The Complete poems of D. H. Lawrence reproduced by permission of Pollinger Limited and the Estate of Frieda Lawrence Ravagli. Permission to reprint lines from ‘East Coker II’ in Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot granted by Faber and Faber Ltd.

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ISBN 9780385611008

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