Truckers
Author: Terry Pratchett
Outside! What’s it like?’ Masklin looked blank. ‘Well,’ he said. ‘It’s sort of big-‘To the thousands of the tiny nomes who live under the floorboards of a large department store, there is no Outside. Things like Day and Night, Sun and Rain are just daft old legends. Then a devastating piece of news shatters their existence: the Store – their whole world – is to be demolis….Read More
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