A New Discworld Novel!

Saw this on FB the other day, it was on the Pratchett page.

"We're delighted to confirm that a brand new Discworld novel is heading your way and will available before Christmas!
RAISING STEAM - the 40th book in the Discworld series – will be published on 24th October and will see the Disc's first train come steaming into town."

It must be another Moist Von Lipwig novel, yes?

Do you know if there's a different release date for the US?

I don't know, the blurb I read was very small. There's nothing about it on Amazon yet, so no pre-ordering.

The UK release date has now slipped to 7th Novemebr 2013 according to amazon uk. I had pre-ordered and received e-mail notification of the change of probable delivery dates.

Bah. Never mind, it can be a pre-Christmas present to myself!

With today's electronic missive from amazon UK the date is back to the 24th of October.

and back to 7th. November. I checked the publishers site http://www.transworldbooks.co.uk and that also shows 7th November.