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This book is a brilliant addition to the Discworld collection; it's absolutely stunning, and gives plenty of details on the areas of the Disc that are mentioned in passing, or haven't been visited in a while, with an update as to what's going on at the moment. Two happy afternoons were spent with the map open on the floor, one finger holding the page with the map references, happily putting A level Further Maths to use with the polar coordinates, before getting to the end and (once again) having the crushing realisation that there will be no more Discworld novels. In the back of my mind as I read through this there was a little voice going, 'I wonder how Susan is getting on?' or 'How are Polly and Mal doing?' or 'Will Uberwald move with the times, will the aristocracy get along?' and then a reminder that we will never know. And in a way, that's okay; so many stories were self-contained, have been finished, and we can use this book - and others - to rest assured that things are doing okay.

But that doesn't stop occasional visits from the onion fairy...