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Terry Pratchett

January 2024

  • A fantasy painting of a skeleton in jeans and a hat sitting under a tree with masks that illustrates  Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel Reaper Man

    Family of Discworld illustrator seek wealthy patron to conserve legacy of ‘one of the great artists of our time’

  • Funny books for Summer reads series. From left to right: An Exciting and Vivid Inner Life, short story collection by Paul Dalla Rosa, The Bee Sting by Paul Murray, Bream Gives Me Hiccups by Jesse Eisenberg, Moby Dyke by Krista Burton, Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood and Right Ho, Jeeves! by PG Wodehouse.

    Ultimate summer reads
    The ultimate summer reading list: 15 funny books to make you laugh

December 2023

  • The Circle by Dave Eggers, How To Live Safely In A Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu, All Systems Red by Martha Wells, Terra Nullius by Claire G Coleman, The Truth by Terry Pratchett and The Sandman (Book 1) by Neil Gaiman.

    Ultimate summer reads
    The ultimate summer reading list: 15 sci-fi and fantasy novels to escape into

  • Terry Pratchett.

    Audiobook of the week
    A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett audiobook review – brimming with wit

October 2023

  • Terry Pratchett in 1992.

    A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories by Terry Pratchett review – a fantasist’s formative years

    The Discworld creator’s short tales from the 70s and 80s reveal a young talent bursting with invention and wit
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    Book of the day
    A Stroke of the Pen by Terry Pratchett review – newly discovered early stories

    A collection of comic tales published pseudonymously in the 1970s and 80s is slight, but shows sparks of the brilliance to come
  • Terry Pratchett

    Pratchett power: from lost stories to new adaptations, how the late Discworld author lives on

    It’s 40 years since The Colour of Magic hit the shelves. As newly unearthed short stories are published, fans and friends celebrate the late author’s enduring legacy

July 2023

  • Good Omens Season 2<br>Good Omens Season 2. David Tennant (Crowley), Michael Sheen (Aziraphale)

    TV review
    Good Omens series two – have David Tennant and Michael Sheen really only been a double act since 2019?

    The two lead actors bring so much swaggering mischief to this Neil Gaiman-created series you’d think they’ve been working together for ever. Sadly, the rest of the show has run out of ideas

February 2023

  • Terry Pratchett.

    Rediscovered Terry Pratchett stories to be published

    Twenty stories written under a pseudonym and never before attributed to Pratchett, who died in 2015, will be released this year by Transworld

December 2022

  • The Amazing Maurice. Sky UK

    The Amazing Maurice review – perky Terry Pratchett adaptation

  • Fierce creatures … Hugh Laurie as Maurice and Ariyon Bakare as Darktan in The Amazing Maurice.

    The Amazing Maurice review – rodent crime caper is a riot of silliness

September 2022

  • A collection of Discworld novels by the popular best selling English author Sir Terry Pratchett - concept: reading, comedic fantasy<br>2C93M58 A collection of Discworld novels by the popular best selling English author Sir Terry Pratchett - concept: reading, comedic fantasy

    ‘We can continue Pratchett’s efforts’: the gamers keeping Discworld alive

    A text-based, multiplayer role-playing game based on the works of Terry Pratchett, the Discworld MUD has been in constant service for 30 years
  • 10th APRIL-SALISBURY- : Terry Pratchett. ( Photo by Graeme Robertson )

    Observer book of the week
    Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins review – anecdotes, elephants and ‘an embuggerance’

    A new biography by the fantasy novelist’s longtime assistant provides a joyful and painful closeup of the irrepressible writer who made the absurd strangely convincing
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    ‘I think I was good, though I could have been better’: Terry Pratchett and the writing of his life

    After he was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, the Discworld author began an autobiography. He never finished it, but seven years after his death, his long-time assistant has taken up the task

August 2022

  • Bean there … Annibale Carracci’s The Beaneater.

    Cultural prescription
    Food for thought: film, music and art to help you through the cost of living crisis

    From a 16th-century worker’s humble lunch to raging rap, our critics find the works that grapple with the challenges of hard times

May 2022

  • Andy Serkis

    Audiobook of the week
    Small Gods by Terry Pratchett audiobook review – terrifically narrated by Andy Serkis

  • ‘A pure adrenaline rush in literary form’: PD Smith on American Tabloid by James Ellroy.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in May

January 2022

  • Old black leather boots

    Walking the Sam Vimes ‘Boots’ theory back in time

    Letters: Sally Goldsmith traces the idea back to The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists, while Cassy Firth says the adage ‘buy cheap, buy twice’ was a favourite of northern grannies
  • Jack Monroe.

    Terry Pratchett estate backs Jack Monroe’s idea for ‘Vimes Boots’ poverty index

    Campaigner has used the idea drawn from Discworld novels to register the disproportionate effect price rises have on the lower paid
  • Terry Pratchett.

    Official biography of Terry Pratchett to be published

    A Life With Footnotes, by the late author’s former assistant and friend, has been authorised by Pratchett’s estate and is due to come out in September
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