Book description
In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry
Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved
authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short
form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen
charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his
schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press,;
to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on
again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.
Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered;
abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens,
death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about
Christmas,all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour.
With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A. S. Byatt,
illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author
himself, this is a book to treasure.
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.
