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Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook Discworld Diary 2007 by Terry Pratchett with Stephen Briggs and illustrated by Paul Kidby
01/11/2006 . Source: Phil Jones 
pub: Gollancz. A diary of pages hardback. Price: £12.99 (UK only). ISBN: 0-575-07723-9. Buy from Amazon US - Buy from Amazon UK
nb: US titles may only be available from Amazon US, and UK titles from Amazon UK. check out website: www.orionbooks.co.uk
Yet again we're coming to the end of the year. Christmas and Hogwatchday will soon be upon us and in the time honoured tradition we go out and purchase a diary for the up and coming year.
Fans of Discworld will now be familiar with the regular output that is the Discworld Diary. Fully functioning with handy spaces for you to write you appointments in and the like. We have a parody of the Ankh-Morpork Post office Handbook (what do you mean its not the real deal?). Anyway, for those who have purchased or received one of these delightful diaries in the past, the format will be, on the whole, conversant with the pre-mentioned style within of past editions.
This time, though, we have the diary presented in the style of, you guessed it, Ankh-Morpork's postal service. Anyone who has read 'Going Postal' will be o-fey with the said contents. It shouldn't put you off, though, if you haven't read said book as the humour and parody will be recognised by any Discworld fan. If you are not, how shall we say up-to-date with Pratchett's fantasy world or, for that matter, read any of the forty or so Discworld books (where have you been for the last few decades?). You too can enjoy the diary by looking at the pretty pictures, ooh arrrrrrrrrrr! Or just use it perhaps as a diary! Anyway I digress.
The start of the diary presents us with a short potted history of the post office in Ankh-Morpork, it's rules and regulations, services and useful information. Ironically, most of the guidelines seem awfully familiar to anyone who's had the use of the British post office. Some of Paul Kidby's wonderful illustrations break up the section and also feature throughout the main diary pages. On Octeday, what do you mean there are only seven days in a week, anyway you get a short aside such as heroes of the post office, great days in posting and the odd description about unusual stamps in history along with a splatting of drawings. A few more illustrations would have been good but hey, you can't have everything.
On the whole, an entertaining and mostly functional package that will entertain and delight our Discworld lovers among us. OK, it good just go out and gets one.
Phil Jones
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