Johnny and the Dead

Oct 4, 2024 7:30 AM

Author:Terry Pratchett

Johnny and the Dead

From the legendary Terry Pratchett, the author of Discworld, the second instalmentin the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy

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Sell the cemetery?

Over their dead bodies . . .

Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have learnt a thing or two from Johnny. They're not going to take it lying down . . . especially since it's Halloween tomorrow.

Besides, they're beginning to find that life is a lot more fun than it was when they were . . . well . . . alive. Particularly if they break a few rules . . .

Reviews

Entertaining fable

—— Independent

Marvellous story . . . funny, poignant, angry, outrageous and moving . . . Terry Pratchett is simply the best there is

—— Vector

A humorous book, full of puns and asides, wittily and skilfully written... a delight of a book for any fluent teenage reader

—— School Librarian

A lovely, funny, witty, sometimes wise book, exciting and entertaining and always highly readable

—— Junior Bookshelf

A funny, poignant story

—— Write Away!

If you’re in the market to have your pants scared off this Halloween, this atmospheric tale, finely balanced between horror and humour, will definitely do the trick . . . There are few writers whose work I look forward to more.

—— Imogen Russell Williams , Middle Grade Strikes Back

Publication of a new Lockwood and Co. adventure must qualify as one of the literary events of the year. Jonathan Stroud not only writes like a dream, he creates some of the most inventive, most exciting storylines around.

—— Andrea Reece , LoveReading

I enjoyed it so much, I hope there will be yet another book soon to follow in this fabulously told series.

—— Amazed Earthling, with Guardian Children's Books

I love this series so much, the characters are funny . . . the ghosts are awesome.

—— An Awful Lot of Reading

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