Terry Pratchett
Sir Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998 and in 2009 was knighted for his services to literature. He is the author of the phenomenally successful Discworld series and his trilogy for young readers, The Bromeliad, is scheduled to be adapted into a spectacular animated movie. His first Discworld novel for children, THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal. In December 2007 he announced that he had been diagnosed with Posterior Cortical Atrophy, a rare variant of Alzheimer's disease.
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Snuff
Terry Pratchett
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies and an ancient crime more terrible than murder....
Format: Hardback - Released: 13/10/2011
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Unseen Academicals
Terry Pratchett
I’ve lost track of how many Discworld novels have flowed from the pen of the incomparable Terry Pratchett, thirty or so I believe. This is the latest madcap adventure from the world that so resembles ours yet is nothing like...
Format: Paperback - Released: 10/06/2010
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Unseen Academicals
Terry Pratchett
Well Sir Terry has reached his 37th Discworld novel with Unseen Academicals and all the wonderful weirdness and humour is still there, this time revolving around a team of wizards who have to win a game of football without using...
Format: Hardback - Released: 08/10/2009
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Nation
Terry Pratchett
Shortlisted for the CILIP Carnegie Medal 2010.
Shortlisted for the Guardian Children’s Fiction Prize 2009
Hugely entertaining, this is a fully envisaged fantasy adventure, which
makes serious points about the importance of the past from the master
storyteller and author of the hugely...
Format: Paperback - Released: 08/10/2009
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Wintersmith
Terry Pratchett
We thought it was essential to have at least one Terry Pratchett novel in our launch of our teenage and young adult category ‘NewGen’. This one is Pratchett at his side-splitting best – it’s funny, it’s unputdownable and no one...
Format: Paperback - Released: 27/09/2007
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Making Money
Terry Pratchett
The latest from this master storyteller and humorist. Having successfully transformed the post office in Going Postal, Moist, Discworld’s most upright reformed criminal, is put in charge of the Mint, and the usual mayhem ensues. I defy anyone not...
Format: Hardback - Released: 24/09/2007
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Going Postal
Terry Pratchett
Featured on The Book Show on Sky Arts on 1 April 2010.
A writer who had more titles on the BBC’s Big Read Top 100 than any other living author, only Charles Dickens matched him. At the start Pratchett was categorised...
Format: Paperback (a Format) - Released: 01/10/2005
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Thud!
Terry Pratchett
Terry Pratchett is not only a great writer of comic fantasy but a brilliant satirist of our age. In this novel he explores race relations between the Trolls and Dwarfs of Ankh- Morpork, two groups that can never see eye...
Format: Hardback - Released: 01/10/2005
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The Colour of Magic
Terry Pratchett
Who would have believed back in 1985 that this first introduction into the madcap Discworld which satirised fantasy novels and introduced us to some fantastic characters would turn into the Discworld series numbering some thirty works. If you have wondered...
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/04/2005
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Monstrous Regiment
Terry Pratchett
If ever there was a Discworld novel to introduce new readers to Pratchett’s brilliance, this is it. And don’t worry if you aren’t familiar – try this and then work through the 30+ others.
Format: Paperback - Released: 01/10/2004
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Only You Can Save Mankind
Terry Pratchett
The first of the Johnny Maxwell trilogy, aimed at younger readers but accessible to all, deals with perceptions of reality, humanity, gender, race and conflict in Pratchett's famously light and witty style. Set against the first Gulf War and the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 29/04/2004
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