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ON AMAZON PRIME FROM 31ST MAY – STARRING DAVID TENNANT, MICHAEL SHEEN AND BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH
‘Marvellously benign, ridiculously inventive and gloriously funny’
Guardian
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‘Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right’
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch, Judgement Day is almost upon us and the world's going to end in a week . . .
Now people have been predicting the end of the world almost from its very beginning, so it's only natural to be sceptical when a new date is set for Judgement Day. But what if, for once, the predictions are right, and the apocalypse really is due to arrive next Saturday, just after tea?
You could spend the time left drowning your sorrows, giving away all your possessions in preparation for the rapture, or laughing it off as (hopefully) just another hoax. Or you could just try to do something about it.
It's a predicament that Aziraphale, a somewhat fussy angel, and Crowley, a fast-living demon now finds themselves in. They've been living amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and, truth be told, have grown rather fond of the lifestyle and, in all honesty, are not actually looking forward to the coming Apocalypse.
And then there's the small matter that someone appears to have misplaced the
Antichrist . . .
Author Biography
Terry Pratchett is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld
series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all,
he is the author of fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted
for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the
Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to
literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and they have
been translated into thirty-seven languages.
www.terrrypratchett.co.uk
Neil Gaiman is the acclaimed creator of the graphic novel series SANDMAN and
of such novels for children as Coraline and for adults as American Gods. His
comics and novels have sold in their tens of millions. Like Terry, his works
have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and also like Terry, he is the
winner of multipleprizes, including the Carnegie Medal. Unlike Terry, he has
never been awarded a knighthood for services to literature, although his mother
thinks that sooner or later the Queen will read one of his books and immediately
knight him if she likes it, and that to be on the safe side he should leave out
the rude words. He does have the Newbery Medal, though.
www.neilgaiman.com
