Johnny and the Bomb: Book summary and reviews of Johnny and the Bomb by Terry Pratchett

Johnny and the Bomb Summary

Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. This has never been more true than when he finds himself in his hometown on May 21, 1941, over forty years before his birth!

An accidental time traveler, Johnny knows his history. He knows England is at war, and he knows that on this day German bombs will fall on the town. It happened. It's history. And as Johnny and his friends quickly discover, tampering with history can have unpredictable—and drastic—effects on the future.

But letting history take its course means letting people die. What if Johnny warns someone and changes history? What will happen to the future? If Johnny uses his knowledge to save innocent lives by being in the right place at the right time, is he doing the right thing?

Johnny and the Bomb Reviews

"Genuinely hilarious dialogue, fast plot: Pratchett remains the very best-known cure for bookphobics everywhere" - Mail on Sunday (UK).

'Terry Pratchett's storytelling skills are exceptional ... A brilliant story full of Pratchett's quirky and delightful humour" - The Bookseller (UK).

'The stretches of imagination are breathtaking ... The opportunities for Forties-versus-Nineties culture clash are milked for maximum farce" - Daily Mail (UK).

'The third in this series explodes onto the bookshelves ... side-splittingly funny" - Young Telegraph (UK).

'An exhilarating switchback swirl through different but interconnecting versions of the same two days, one in the Nineties and one in 1941" - Times Educational Supplement (UK).

A brilliant, wonderful book ... best of all is the humour" - Sunday Telegraph (UK).

'Enormously entertaining and contains more wry observations than you could shake a Heinkel at" - The Telegraph (UK).

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Terry Pratchett Author Biography

Terry Pratchett (born 1948) lives in Somerset, England, where he spends all his time, and more, writing his rigorously naturalistic, curiously entertaining, shamelessly popular Discworld novels that have earned him extravagant acclaim and puzzled stares from millions of readers around the world.

With sales of over 30 million copies, Pratchett's brilliantly funny and subtly wise books have been translated into more than 25 languages.

In addition to his 29 novels (as of 2004) about the fantastic flat planet Discworld, Pratchett has written several children's books, including The Bromeliad Trilogy and the books about Johnny Maxwell: Only You Can Save Mankind, Johnny and the Bomb, and Johnny and the Dead.

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