'That's the trouble about the good guys and the bad guys! They're all guys!'In the small yet
aggressive country of Borogravia there are strict rules citizens must follow. For a start
women belong in the kitchen - not in jobs pubs or indeed trousers. And certainly not on the
front line. Polly Perks has to become a boy in a hurry if she wants to find her missing brother
in the army. Cutting off her hair and wearing the trousers is easy. Going to war however is
not. Polly and her fellow raw recruits are suddenly in the thick of a losing battle. All they
have on their side is the most artful sergeant in the army and a vampire with a lust for
coffee. It's time to make a stand. 'You ride along on his tide of outlandish invention
realising that you are in the presence of a true original' The TimesThe Discworld novels can be
read in any order but Monstrous Regiment is a standalone.
