Search results for tag: Terry Pratchett

Have you won $500 worth of Euro Crime or the ENTIRE DISCWORLD SERIES?

To celebrate the release of The Girl in the Spider’s Web, written by David Lagercrantz, and The Shepherd’s Crown, released after the passing of Terry Pratchett, we gave Booktopians the chance to win $500 of Euro Crime and THE ENTIRE DISCWORLD SERIES, worth $800! Here’s what you had to do to enter… All you had to do to enter was order The Girl in the Spider’s Web, b... Read more

by | August 31, 2015

GUEST BLOG: A farewell to Sir Terry Pratchett – by Karen Miller

What’s that saying in showbiz? Always leave ‘em wanting more? Well, I guess then it’s mission accomplished. Because I know I’m not the only one who will forever more be wanting more Sam Vimes, more Granny Weatherwax, more Captain Carrot and Lord Vetinari and Susan and Death of Rats and Nanny Ogg and Magrat and … and … and … When we learned in 2007 that the man who created the Discworld was affl... Read more

by | March 16, 2015

NEWS: Terry Pratchett, Discworld series author, dies aged 66

Terry Pratchett, the man who kept readers around the world laughing after the premature death of Douglas Adams, has died in his home surrounded by family eight years after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. Author of over 70 books, many of which make up his celebrated Discworld series, Pratchett redefined comic fantasy writing and made some of the biggest and most complex issues accessible to la... Read more

by | March 13, 2015

Snuff: A Discworld Novel : Book 39 by Terry Pratchett

I used to live with a woman who became seriously addicted to the Discworld novels. I used to come home with a new one and she would bound to the door, then circle about my legs until I extracted it from my bag. Once it was in my hands I always felt a little nervous, as she would try to snatch it from me, leaping about like a madwoman. I would hold it aloft, out of her reach and squeeze past her... Read more

by | October 13, 2011