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Terry Pratchett wasn't a keen reader
during his early childhood, but his life changed at the age
of 10 when someone gave him a copy of Wind in the Willows.
With this discovery his appetite for reading grew and he read
everything he could find to make up for lost time. At the
age of 12, he sold his first short story for £14 and
spent his winnings on a typewriter. Encouraged by this success,
he left school at 17 to work in local journalism.
He had his first novel, The Carpet
People, published when he was only 23 and continued to
write in his spare time whilst working on local newspapers.
In his thirties he began to worry about his future and leaving
journalism behind, he spent the next 8 years as a press officer
for the Central Electricity Generating Board. When his fourth
book The Colour of Magic became successful in Corgi
paperback, he realised that writing was his future, and in
1987 he gave up his job and began writing full time.
Where Terry goes, his word processor
goes too - which is just as well as he undertakes huge and
regular signing tours, with readers turning up in their hundreds
to each event. He believes that everyone is capable of writing.
Perhaps this is why everyone is capable of reading his works...
He is known to interest even the most apathetic readers, and
confidently ignores the marketing gulf fixed between children
and adults.
Terry and his wife live in Wiltshire.
Terry's interests include geology, astronomy, growing carnivorous
plants, keeping tortoises and trying to make computers do
things they were never intended to do.
'One
of the funniest English authors alive'
- The Independent
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 The
Wee Free Men
Nine-year-old
Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd -
might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's
up to Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening:
a fairy-tale monster in the stream, a headless horseman and,
strangest of all, the tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free Men,
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 A
Hat Full of Sky
Eleven-year-old
Tiffany Aching wants to be a real witch. But a real witch doesn't
casually step out of her body, leaving it empty. Tiffany does
- and there's something just waiting for a handy body to take
over. Something ancient and horrible, which can't die. Now Tiffany's
got to learn to be a real witch really quickly, with the help
of arch-witch Mistress Weatherwax and the truly amazing Miss
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 Winter
smith
Tiffany Aching
is a trainee witch - now working for the seriously scary Miss
Treason. But when Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance - the crossover
from summer to winter - she does what noone has ever done
before and leaps into the dance. Into the oldest story there
ever is. And draws the attention of the wintersmith himself...
As Tiffany-shaped snowflakes hammer down on the land, can
Tiffany deal with the consequences of her actions?
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 The
Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
Imagine a million clever rats. Rats that
don't run. Rats that fight- Maurice, a scruffy tomcat with an
eye for the main chance, has the perfect fiddle going. He has
a stupid-looking kid for a piper, and he has his very own plague
of rats - rats who are strangely educated, so Maurice can no
longer think of them as 'lunch'.
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 Johnny
and the Bomb
Mrs
Tachyon is just a nutty old bag lady, isn't she? No. Somehow
with her bunch of dubious black bags she holds the key to different
times, different eras - including the Blitz in 1941. Suddenly
the present isn't the safe place Johnny thought it was... |
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 Diggers
A Bright
New Dawn is just around the corner for thousands of tiny nomes
when they move into the ruined buildings of an abandoned quarry.
Or is it? Soon strange things begin to happen. Then humans
appear and they really mess everything up. The quarry is to
be re-opened, and the nomes must fight to defend their new
home.
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