Book Review: Terry Pratchett - A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins


Photo of Terry Pratchett.

Like a million fans, I have a precious memory of (briefly) meeting Terry Pratchett and getting him to sign something amusing. I hold on to it dearly. This is half-way between a biography and autobiography. Parts were clearly dictated and recorded prehumously and are interspersed with observations from others. Terry's voice shines through although, as […]

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Book Review - Terry Pratchett's Discworld Imaginarium


Terry Pratchett wearing a top hat.

Paul Kidby has collected the very best of his Discworld illustrations in this definitive volume, including 40 pieces never before seen, 30 pieces that have only appeared in foreign editions, limited editions and BCA editions, and 17 book cover illustrations that have never been seen without cover text. If Pratchett's pen gave his characters life, Paul Kidby's brush allowed them to live it, and nowhere is that better illustrated than in this magnificent book.

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Review: Pratchett "The Last Hero" Illustrated by Paul Kidby


Book cover featuring a very old barbarian standing on a mountain.

This review was written for a now-defunct university website. Terence Eden - 2016 Another year - another Pratchett book. I am usually the first in the queue to read his latest offering, I was a little reticent about purchasing this tome; it's quite short (160 pages), it's illustrated and his last offering, "The Thief Of […]

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Review: Terry Pratchett at UEA


Book cover for Pratchett's "The Truth".

This account of Terry Pratchet talking at the University of East Anglia was written for a now-defunct university website. For other contemporaneous accounts, read Concrete Issue 119. Terence Eden - 2017 Everything I learned - I learned at my local library. School taught me how to spit! Terry Pratchett is Britain's best selling living author. […]

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