Yearly Archives: 2022

Terry Pratchett Memorial Sculpture Busts

15th November 2022
Terry Pratchett Memorial Sculpture Busts - Due for Release

Terry Pratchett Memorial Sculpture Busts  As our 50th Year Celebrations draw to a close, the Estate of Sir Terry Pratchett, in collaboration with Discworld artist Paul Kidby, is delighted to announce the release of the official Sir Terry Pratchett bust. This intricate cold cast sculpture is accurately based on the original memorial bronze of Sir Terry created by Paul Kidby in…

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A Life With Footnotes – The Observer Review

26th September 2022

THE OBSERVER BOOK OF THE WEEK Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes by Rob Wilkins Review by Frank Cottrell-Boyce, Sun 25 Sep 2022 07.00 BST …anecdotes, elephants and ‘an embuggerance’ A new biography by the fantasy novelist’s longtime assistant provides a joyful and painful closeup of the irrepressible writer who made the absurd strangely convincing. Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes…

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Turning Terry Pratchett’s Discworld into Audiobooks

13th May 2022
Bill Nighy

This documentary follows Penguin Audio’s ambitious project of turning the entire Discworld catalog into audiobook format. https://youtu.be/Zw4kYXx8s4k Click here to find out more: https://linktr.ee/Discworld ‘It couldn’t be anybody other than Bill Nighy’ “The footnotes are important because that’s a private moment between me and the author,” explains Rob Wilkins – Pratchett’s biography, written by Wilkins, was called A Life in…

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Transworld reveal new Discworld series cover look and launch of annual Terry Pratchett Day

28th February 2022
Transworld Release - New Discworld Series Covers

Transworld reveal new Discworld series cover look and launch of annual Terry Pratchett Day Transworld is delighted to announce that it will be releasing new editions of Terry Pratchett’s bestselling Discworld novels, starting with the six books in the Witches series together with the standalone title Small Gods. Equal Rites, Wyrd Sisters, Witches Abroad, Lords and Ladies, Maskerade, Carpe Jugulum…

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A Life With Footnotes – Announcing the Official Biography of Terry Pratchett

24th January 2022
Terry Pratchett A Life With Footnotes

A LIFE WITH FOOTNOTES – ANNOUNCING THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY OF TERRY PRATCHETT Transworld Publishers are thrilled to announce the publication of Terry Pratchett: A Life with Footnotes, the official biography of Sir Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author’s literary estate. At the time of his death in 2015, Terry was…

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