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Snuff Terry Pratchett HarperCollins, Oct 11 2011, $25.99 ISBN 9780062011848 Ankh-Morpork City Watch Commander Sam Vimes faces his most difficult assignment in years. His Grace Sir Samuel, the Duke of Ankh, will spend two torturious weeks rusticating with his wife Sybil and their six years old...

The Long Earth Terry Pratchett and Stephen Baxter Harper, Jun 19 2012, $25.99 ISBN: 9780062067753 The Stepping process has enabled mankind to cross into a seemingly infinite number of parallel Earths. None of these alternate earths contain human life while the farther you journey from the earth...

Dodger Terry Pratchett HarperCollins, Sep 25 2012, $17.99 ISBN: 9780062009494 In London, two thugs beat up a young woman when Dodger the thieving tosher jumping out of a drain intervenes. She begs him to help her escape as her assaulters want to take her back to the monster she has run away...

A few articles doing the rounds in the papers - the Guardian does a nice short, one: http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2015/mar/12/terry-pratchett-in-quotes-15-of-the-best ...but Goodreads is much more comprehensive: https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/1654.Terry_Pratchett My...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11467688/Sir-Terry-Pratchett-dies-aged-66.html

Terry Pratchett is so well known for his Discworld novels that it is hard to know how to react when he steps out from under their shadow and tries something totally different. This is very much the case where he teams up with noted science fiction writer Stephen Baxter to write the Long Earth...

3rd January 2009 03:52 PM Brian Turner Terry Pratchett is now Sir Terry Pratchett, after the New Year Honours list awarded him a knighthood for “services to literature”. Terry Pratchett was said to be “flabbergasted” at the honour. It comes only a year after it was revealed he had...

13th November 2010 11:22 PM Elaine Frei Sir Terry Pratchett, the fantasy writer best known for his Discworld series, was named a winner of the Outstanding Achievement Award at the Galaxy National Book Awards on 10 November. This is the first year that the Outstanding Achievement Award was...

How lucky am I? Mrs Ctg spent a bit of money to acquire tickets to the only appearance of Sir Pratchett this year. Is anybody else coming?

Via The New Statesman: http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2012/11/terry-pratchett-my-daughter-rhianna-will-take-over-discworld-when-im-gone From the source: Thoughts and reactions?

So begins my attempt to reread all of the Discworld books to date (apart from MAKING MONEY, which I read fairly recently, and the YA books, which I haven't read before). The Colour of Magic

Terry Pratchett had been talking about a book called Nation he'd really wanted to write for almost half a decade when he was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's. According to rumour, he'd already begun working on the next Tiffany Aching Discworld novel, I Shall Wear Midnight, but upon hearing...

My second "real" Discworld review.

Ok this is simple its the person that has read a certain book the most times that will rank 1st for addictiveness and will stay there untill someone posts more reads :D ok for me: Nightwatch, 14 reads Guards! Guards! 11 reads Theif of Time 12 reads Reaper man 9 reads Going Postal 7 reads Good...

At 113 years old, Miss Treason, a witch, knows about the connection between age, beans, fresh fruit and 'letting out wind'! Tiffany, only 13 years old, with a 'he's not my boyfriend!' (even if he does send her letters with SWALK on them), is learning witchcraft from Miss Treason. She...

Terry Pratchett's books seem to function like a satyr play at the end of a day of tragedies - they poke not too subtle fun at the themes and concerns which lie deep in the psyche. This may seem a bold claim, but there has to be some reason for popularity of the discworld books. In this one...

At the heart of this novel is the Commander of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, Sam Vimes. Married to dragon breeding Lady Sybil (who has also taken up Sock Darning: She isn't very good at it, but it is the sort of thing one ought to do, as a wife), and with a young son, Sam, expecting his dad to...

***** SPOILERS!!! ***** Read this - really enjoyed it up to the point where Vimes orders the blackade, but then hear that the crowd have moved it up a street. After then, the story - so far pivoted upon the cunning and wit of Vimes - suddenly seems to turn into a farce with no real...

Has anyone read this? It's absolutely HILARIOUS! One of the funniest books I've ever come across. I'm loving Crowly!!! :D

Thud! is the sound that we 'hear' at the start of the book, as a troll club hits a deep-down dwarf. And that sets events off nicely in this book. Now, don't get me wrong, I loved the book. But the humour of books such as Guards! Guards! has gone. But in its place is a humour that, while it...