TERRY PRATCHETT is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages.
- The first seven Discworld titles are being reissued with stunning
new covers, publication coincides with 21 years of Discworld
anniversary and the hardback publication of "The Celebrated
Discworld Almanak" and "Going Postal".
- "Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a
distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift he is a satirist of
enormous talent... incredibly funny... compulsively readable."
--"The Times"
- "His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of
the perennial joys of modern fiction." --"Mail on Sunday"
- "The great Terry Pratchett, whose wit is metaphysical, who
creates an energetic and lively secondary world, who has a
multifarious genius for strong parody... who deals with death with
startling originality. Who writes amazing sentences." --A.S. Byatt,
"New York Times"
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