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Terry Pratchett’s novels have been adapted for the screen 11 times now. Why are his novels so hard to get right?
A children’s novelist chooses her favourite books to keep young people happy and absorbed while stuck at home.
Terry Pratchett opted to have his crushed by a steamroller.
This Saturday it will be a year since Alzheimer’s stole Terry Pratchett from the world. We mark the occasion with a beginner’s guide to his most enduring creation, the 41-book Discworld series.
Pratchett’s work is often classified as ‘genre fiction’ rather than literary fiction. Yet his relationship with genre is complex and adversarial. He sets genre stereotypes up to be deconstructed.
J R R Tolkien died over 40 years ago and since then there have been over 30 titles bearing his name. Is this warranted?
‘I knew and counted Terry among my friends, and I watched Alzheimer’s slowly and insidiously strip him of attributes and faculty.’ So what can we make of his final Discworld novel, published posthumously?
Terry Pratchett, Jack Cohen and Ian Stewart wrote a series of four books on the science of Discworld.
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