Book:The Wee Free Men

Book:The Wee Free Men
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Publisher	Doubleday
Publication date	May 2003
ISBN	0385605331
Pages	318
RRP	£12.99
Main characters	Tiffany Aching Nac Mac Feegle Toad Miss Perspicacia Tick
Series	Tiffany Series
Annotations	View
Notes	Book #30
All data relates to the first UK edition.

Blurb

There's trouble on the Aching farm – a monster in the river, a headless horseman in the driveway and nightmares spreading down from the hills. And now Tiffany Aching's little brother has been stolen by the Queen of the Fairies (although Tiffany doesn't think this is entirely a bad thing).

Tiffany's got to get him back. To help her, she has a weapon (a frying pan), her granny's magic book (well, Diseases of the Sheep, actually) and—

'Crivens! Whut aboot us, ye daftie!'

—oh yes. She's also got the Nac Mac Feegle, the Wee Free Men, the fightin', thievin', tiny blue-skinned pictsies who were thrown out of Fairyland for being Drunk and Disorderly...

A wise, witty and wonderfully inventive adventure set on the Discworld.

Main characters

• Tiffany Aching
• Wentworth Aching
• Granny Aching
• Perspicacia Tick
• Nac Mac Feegle
  • The Chalk Hill Clan
  • Rob Anybody
  • Daft Wullie
  • William the Gonnagle
  • The Kelda of the Chalk Hill Clan
• Toad

Secondary characters

• Dromes
• Granny Weatherwax
• Grimhounds
• Headless Horseman
• Jeannie, new Kelda of the Chalk Hill Clan
• Jenny Green-Teeth
• Lawyers
• Nanny Ogg
• Queen of Fairyland
• Roland de Chumsfanleigh
• Travelling Teachers

Notes

The working title of this book was For Fear of Little Men. This book is the only Discworld Novel so far that does not feature Death.

There are plans to make a movie according to the BBC website.

Also see

• The Illustrated Wee Free Men

External links

• The Wee Free Men on the Annotated Pratchett File

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