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Making Money

core novel 2007 Discworld

Record

First published2007
Original language EN
Work typenovel
Canon statuscore
Reader rating4.27 (79,800 ratings, collected 2026-09-11)
Page count349
First-edition ISBN9780061161643

Synopsis

Now Postmaster General but growing restless in the role, Moist von Lipwig is pressed by Lord Vetinari into taking charge of the moribund Royal Bank of Ankh-Morpork after its elderly owner, Topsy Lavish, dies and leaves control of the bank to her small dog, Mr Fusspot, with Moist appointed as the dog's chairman-minding keeper under the watch of an assassin bound to enforce her will. Thrust into a world of finance he barely understands, Moist must contend with the bank's distrustful, tradition-bound Chief Cashier Mr Bent, the scheming Lavish relatives eager to reclaim the institution, and a currency system that no longer works, since gold coinage is running out even as stamps have started to function as money.

Where it sits

  • Universe: Discworld
  • Series: Industrial Revolution / Moist von Lipwig core; position 2 of 3 in the series' recorded order
  • Author: Terry Pratchett

Awards (verified)

  • Locus Award (Best Fantasy Novel), 2008: won

Neighbouring works

Publication order and internal chronology are tracked as two separate orderings and are never conflated: a book's place in one says nothing about its place in the other.

  • Publication order, within the series Industrial Revolution / Moist von Lipwig: position 2 of 3: previous Going Postal (2004) · next Raising Steam (2013)

Sources

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