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 over 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 over 75 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages.
A consistently clever, charming and funny voice-Independent He wasn't imagining an alternative universe; he was reimagining ours-Frank Cottrell Boyce, Guardian Cracking dialogue, compelling illogic and unchained whimsy... Pratchett has a subject and a style that is very much his own-Sunday Times