Not sure whether this belongs here or in Cafe Society, but I know I must share. 
Just went to buy a wedding anniversary card for my parents, and stopped by the University bookshop on the way, and they had a huge display up for the forthcoming Pratchett book “Wee Free Men”.
Being the kind of person I am, I asked the lovely lady behind the counter when aforementioned book was coming out. She replied 1st May. That’s Thursday!
WOOHOO bounce bounce bounce
I saw an advert for that. It doesn’t look like a Discworld book. A kids book, perhaps?
I don’t know. From the title it sounds like it could have something to do with the “Pictsies”.
Fran, its Discworld.
I am still waiting for Night Watch to come out in p’back over the pond, here. 
I had Last Hero to enjoy over Christmas, but since then I have been forced to re-read The Truth and Thief of Time once each to get my fix (killing time between with a couple of inches-thick volumes on world history).
::taps foot impatiently::
'vark
Amazon has it listed as a juvenile – ages 9-12.
Hmmm… looks like its a “junior” Discworld novel. Interesting. Now I don’t know whether or not to buy it.
What to do?
:looks around confused:
(Just for Tir) :Head explodes!KABOOM:
Discworld?
I feel like I’ve been missing something.
I just ordered it from amazon.co.uk myself, together with the Straight Dope books. They won’t be here for a week or so, though. It’s a junior Discworld book, just as The Amazing Maurice AHER, and that’s good enough for me 
And Vanilla Toast: If you haven’t heard of Discworld, you have been missing something.
I don’t care if it’s “juvenile” or not. The Johnny Maxwell books are highly entertaining, as is the Bromeliad trilogy. It is a Discworld book, too, as was Maurice and that one was excellent.
Can’t wait.
Wheee!!! I have it! Its all mine! I’m so excited - I can’t wait to get home and read it
Hmmm… I wonder if I could slope off home early and hide in my room and read it
waits for his copy to arriave vai UPS
Grrr
This is taking too long.
Ya know it’s sad… I have every new pratchet book shipped to me from England because I HATE the US edition’s covers.
I don’t blame you to be honest. I’ve seen some of the US edition covers, and they are absolutely hideous.
Its not fair though. I can’t go home until I’ve searched this radio galaxy survey and found all the relevant sources. There’s 199 of them! Still, 84 down, 115 to go.
I want to go home and read my book please
Let us know what you think of it, Angua. But…
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Why is it that you never post in the same threads as Carrot? 
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I will do. If I ever manage to get away from all these galaxies!
As for never posting in the same threads as Carrot, well, we have an “arrangement”
I got to read “Wee Free Men” in an Advance Reader’s Edition and I liked it A LOT! It is a “younger readers” sort of book (plucky young heroine-type) but it also has WITCHES (my favorite Discworld characters) in small supporting-cast roles.
Good stuff.
*One of the perqs of having an S.O. who’s a bookstore manager.
We usually get the Brit Covers (Kirby and Kidby) up here nort’ ob de border. Would there be any advantage in using Amazon.ca?
I got my copy yesterday and finished it last night. It’s a quick read. I actually didn’t think too much of it. It’s a young adult novel, so some of the humor is a little slower than his usual. It just didn’t strike any real chords with me. I thought The Amazing Maurice And His Educated Rodents was fantastic. One of my favorites in the Discworld series, actually. Wee Free Men is basically a re-hashing of Lords And Ladies for the younger crowd:
The Queen of the Elves returns and Granny Weatherwax & Nanny Ogg make a cameo. The Nac Mac Feegles take up a lot of the scenes, and they are hilarious. They’re like mini versions of Cohen the Barbarian with better style.
Lords And Ladies was the first “Witches” book I read, and I actually really enjoyed it. I’d just got done my yearly re-read of Lord of the Rings so the wicked take on elves was a treat.
I enjoyed it. ratty pretty much sums it up. The Nac Mac Feegle, are, as always, on fine form.
Crivens!
Lol, nice one. Details coming soon, we hope.
To answer another previous post, I’m not sure if Pratchett’s novels for younger readers are ‘slower’. Perhaps Maurice was, but I think that’s more of Terry’s writing-too-much-now-or-my-getting-jaded showing. His Truckers-Diggers-Wings trilogy was superb. More accessible to 8 year olds perhaps than pure Discworld, which is only fully accessible to 12 year olds upwards (numbers made up, argue about them at your leisure), but not slower.
TAAPP, no-one on the bushy side of the Atlantic needs to complain about having to wait to read the latest TP, since the cost of shipping from amazon.co.uk isn’t much more than a meal, for many reasonable definitions of ‘meal’.