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Johnny and the Bomb

Johnny and the Bomb

Summary

From the legendary Terry Pratchett, the author of Discworld, the third instalment in the Johnny Maxwell Trilogy

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THIS TIME . . . IT’S WAR.

Johnny Maxwell is just an ordinary boy, walking through an ordinary alley . . . until he stumbles across a shopping trolley that can travel back in time.

A trip on this time travelling shopping trolley takes Johnny and his friends back to 1941, in the middle of the Second World War. More specifically, on the day the German bombs will fall on their town.

What if Johnny and his friends could stop it? But tampering with history could have disastrous consequences...

‘Enormously entertaining and contains more wry observations than you could shake a Heinkel at’ – Daily Telegraph

Reviews

  • Enormously entertaining and contains more wry observations than you could shake a Heinkel at
    Daily Telegraph

About the author

Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett was the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he was the author of over fifty bestselling books which have sold over 100 million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood for services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.

www.terrypratchettbooks.com
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