Book 110: "The Truth" by Terry Pratchett

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William de Worde, the estranged son of one of Ankh-Morpork's noble families, ekes out a living writing letters for the illiterate and producing a monthly news letter for a few rich people who don’t live in the city but need to know what is going on there. When a group of dwarfs set up a printing press, much to the fury of the engravers' guild, William finds himself editor of Ankh-Morpork 's first newspaper, and thrown in at the deep end as an investigative journalist, while investigating a plot to depose Lord Vetinari. Very funny satire about the power of the press and its role in society. Lord Vetinari has always been my favourite Discworld character (although who would have believed that he would have a pet dog called Wuffles?), and it also features Gaspode the talking dog, Foul Old Ron and his gang of beggars, C.M.O.T. Dibbler, the Watch, and in cameo roles, Death and the Death of Rats.