I'm an unabashed Terry Pratchett fanboy, and it often seems like each Discworld novel is the best of the lot. But there's one book I return to again, and again, and again: 2003's Monstrous Regiment, a book about gender, war, identity, strategy and tactics. It also happens to be the most stand-alone of all the Discworld books -- one that can be enjoyed without reading any of the other marvellous books in the series. Read the rest

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