Good Omens - Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

According to the Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch - the world's only totally reliable guide to the future, written in 1655 before she rather memorably exploded - the world is going to end this Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just after tea. The armies of Heaven and Hell are massing for the big showdown, but there's a hitch: an angel and a demon who've spent millennia getting rather too comfortable on Earth would quite like the whole apocalypse thing not to happen, and someone appears to have misplaced the Antichrist entirely. Written together by Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman at the height of their comic and fantasy powers, Good Omens has become a genuine modern classic of British comic fantasy - ridiculously inventive, gloriously funny, and somehow both irreverent and warm about questions of good, evil and free will. Its huge cult following only grew after the Prime Video and BBC adaptation, but the book stands entirely on its own as one of the funniest fantasy novels ever written. Essential for fans of Pratchett's Discworld, Gaiman's darker fantasy work, and anyone who likes their apocalypses played for laughs.