In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006).
There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. That Pratchett can explore this while still making us laugh is a tribute to the integrity of his created world.Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. A series that seems to re-invent itself by natural evolution every time" Starburst "Thud! has a serious theme: racial intolerance. you know you can rely on him to be wirtty and quietly wise, and his creations have taken on a life of their own.
Byatt The Times "You hardly need to review Pratchett nowadays. He may write benign comedy but he knows how horribly complicated and exciting the Universe is" - A.S. Whenever I read his stories I find myself thinking that he is "grown up". "Imaginative, witty and consistent - as in consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turnss - Thud! is everything that the 30th novel in a fantasy sequence ought to be, and more" SFX magazine "Pratchett too requires us to think.
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