The Carpet People, Terry Pratchett

When Terry Pratchett was seventeen he wrote a version of this story, it ran as a serial in the Childrens Circle section of the Bucks Free Press where young Pratchett worked and was published as a longer novel in 1971. Who else but Pratchett (who went on to create the discworld series) could set an entire story inside a carpet?

Various tribes live within the carpet, power hungry Mouls, cerebral Wights, and Munrungs who while not power hungry do love a good skirmish, but every carpet dweller is in awe of ‘Fray’. It sweeps across the carpet, flattening settlements without warning and setting two brothers and their tribe off on the adventure of a lifetime. Laced with the trademark humour of the disc world novels and illustrated by the author, good clean fun.