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. You have the passion of the old girl that I have.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. “Then in the summer of 2014 Terry (Pratchett), who had serious Alzheimer’s, he was very compos mentis but it was tragic and awful, he wrote me a letter saying: ‘You have to do this because I want to watch it before the lights go out. We knew it wouldn’t be us because we were far too busy. Terry Gilliam was determined but failed and finally Terry (Pratchett) and I thought, ‘Let’s make a TV series’, went out and began looking for somebody to do the adaptation. “Then we spent many years failing to get it made as a movie. Gaiman, appearing alongside the cast of Good Omens during the Prime Video Presents event in London, said: “It came out and rapidly became a cult book, the kind of book people would show up (with) at signings and it had been read to death, dropped in the soup, held together with Sellotape. Please review your details and accept them to load the content

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