Terry Pratchett

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Terry Pratchett
  • Bibliography:
    103 Books (12 Series)
  • First Book:
    December 1971
  • Latest Book:
    April 2024
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About the Author

Terry Pratchett was born in 1948 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire. He had his first story published when he was just thirteen, and after leaving school at seventeen to become a journalist he continued writing, publishing his first novel, The Carpet People, in 1971 and going on to produce the phenomenally successful Discworld series as well as numerous other books, winning many awards and becoming the UK’s bestselling author.

He died in March 2015 after a long struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Full Series List in Order

Bromeliad

1 - Truckers (Jan-1990)
2 - Diggers (Aug-1990)
3 - Wings (Sep-1990)

Discworld

1 - The Colour of Magic (Aug-1983)
2 - The Light Fantastic (Jun-1986)
3 - Equal Rites (Jan-1987)
4 - Mort (Nov-1987)
5 - Sourcery (May-1988)
6 - Wyrd Sisters (Nov-1988)
7 - Pyramids (Jun-1989)
8 - Guards! Guards! (Nov-1989)
9 - Eric (Aug-1990)
10 - Moving Pictures (Nov-1990)
11 - Reaper Man (May-1991)
12 - Witches Abroad (Nov-1991)
13 - Small Gods (May-1992)
14 - Lords and Ladies (Nov-1992)
15 - Men at Arms (Nov-1993)
16 - Soul Music (May-1994)
17 - Interesting Times (Nov-1994)
18 - Maskerade (Nov-1995)
19 - Feet of Clay (Sep-1996)
20 - Hogfather (Nov-1996)
21 - Jingo (Nov-1997)
22 - The Last Continent (May-1998)
23 - Carpe Jugulum (Oct-1999)
24 - The Fifth Elephant (Nov-1999)
25 - The Truth (Nov-2000)
26 - Thief of Time (May-2001)
27 - The Last Hero (Oct-2001)
28 - The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Nov-2001)
29 - Night Watch (Nov-2002)
30 - The Wee Free Men (May-2003)
31 - Monstrous Regiment (Sep-2003)
32 - A Hat Full of Sky (Jun-2004)
33 - Going Postal (Oct-2004)
34 - Thud! (Nov-2005)
34.5 - Where's My Cow? (Oct-2005)
35 - Wintersmith (Oct-2006)
36 - Making Money (Oct-2007)
37 - Unseen Academicals (Oct-2009)
38 - I Shall Wear Midnight (Oct-2010)
39 - Snuff (Oct-2011)
39.5 - The World of Poo (Jun-2012)
40 - Raising Steam (Mar-2014)
40.5 - Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook (Oct-2014)
41 - The Shepherd's Crown (Sep-2015)

Discworld - A Tiffany Aching Adventure

1 - The Wee Free Men (May-2003)
2 - A Hat Full of Sky (Jun-2004)
3 - Wintersmith (Oct-2006)
4 - I Shall Wear Midnight (Oct-2010)
5 - The Shepherd's Crown (Sep-2015)

Discworld - City Watch

1 - Guards! Guards! (Nov-1989)
2 - Men at Arms (Nov-1993)
3 - Feet of Clay (Sep-1996)
4 - Jingo (Nov-1997)
5 - The Fifth Elephant (Nov-1999)
6 - Night Watch (Nov-2002)
7 - Thud! (Nov-2005)

Discworld - Death

1 - Mort (Nov-1987)
2 - Reaper Man (May-1991)
3 - Soul Music (May-1994)
4 - Hogfather (Nov-1996)
5 - Thief of Time (May-2001)

Discworld - Moist von Lipwig

1 - Going Postal (Oct-2004)
2 - Making Money (Oct-2007)

Discworld - Rincewind

1 - The Colour of Magic (Aug-1983)
2 - The Light Fantastic (Jun-1986)
3 - Sourcery (May-1988)
4 - Eric (Aug-1990)
5 - Interesting Times (Nov-1994)
6 - The Last Continent (May-1998)
7 - The Last Hero (Oct-2001)

Discworld - Witches

1 - Equal Rites (Jan-1987)
2 - Wyrd Sisters (Nov-1988)
3 - Witches Abroad (Nov-1991)
4 - Lords and Ladies (Nov-1992)
5 - Maskerade (Nov-1995)
6 - Carpe Jugulum (Oct-1999)

Discworld Companion

1 - The Discworld Companion (Jan-1994)
2 - Discworld's Unseen University Diary 1998 (Oct-1997)
3 - Discworld's Ankh Morpork City Watch Diary 1999 (Sep-1998)
4 - Discworld Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000 (Jan-1999)
5 - Nanny Ogg's Cookbook (Nov-1999)
6 - Discworld Fools' Guild Diary 2001 (Aug-2000)
7 - Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook & Diary 2002 (Sep-2001)
8 - The Discworld (Reformed) Vampyre's Diary 2003 (Sep-2002)
9 - The Discworld Almanak: The Year of the Prawn (Oct-2004)
10 - The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook: Discworld Diary 2007 (Aug-2006)
11 - The Art Of Discworld (Oct-2006)
12 - Lu-Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment 2008 (Aug-2007)
13 - The Folklore of Discworld (Nov-2008)
14 - The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld (Jan-2009)
15 - The Folklore of Discworld: Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld wit (Mar-2014)
16 - Discworld Diary 2015: We R Igors: First and Last Aid (Aug-2014)
17 - Discworld Diary 2016: A Practical Manual for the Modern Witch (Aug-2015)

Discworld Maps

1 - The Streets of Ankh Morpork (Sep-1994)
2 - The Discworld Mapp (Nov-1995)
3 - A Tourist Guide to Lancre (Jan-1998)
4 - Death's Domain (Jul-2002)
5 - The Compleat Ankh-Morpork: City Guide (Nov-2012)
6 - The Compleat Discworld Atlas (Oct-2015)

Johnny Maxwell

1 - Only You Can Save Mankind (1992)
2 - Johnny and the Dead (1993)
3 - Johnny and the Bomb (Apr-1996)

Science of Discworld

1 - The Science Of Discworld (Jun-1999)
2 - The Science of Discworld II: The Globe (Jan-2002)
3 - The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch (Jun-2005)
4 - The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day (Jan-2013)

Multi-Author Series List

Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

Witches Abroad (Nov-1991)

Book List in Order: 103 titles

  • The Carpet People

    In the beginning, there was nothing but endless flatness. Then came the Carpet... That's the old story everyone knows and loves (even if they don't really believe it). But now the Carpet's home to many different tribes and peoples, and there's a n...

  • The Dark Side of the Sun

    Dom Salabos had a lot of advantages. As heir to a huge fortune he had an excellent robot servant (with Man-Friday subcircuitry), a planet (the First Syrian Bank) as a godfather, a security chief who even ran checks on himself, and on Dom's home wo...

  • Strata

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy

    As a 210-year-old'world-shaper, there isn't much in the universe that surprises or impresses Kin Arad. At least not until Jago Jalo turns up in her office with an unbelievable tale. Jago, a man presumed dead a thousand years and possessing a cloak...

  • The Colour of Magic

    Discworld - 1
    Discworld - Rincewind - 1

    DISCWORLD -- perched on the backs of four cosmically gargantuan elephants (who themselves are traveling the intergalactic void atop a giant sea turtle)--is a place where anything can happen. And it does when Twoflower, a naive insurance salesman tur...

  • The Light Fantastic

    Discworld - 2
    Discworld - Rincewind - 2

    RINCEWIND -- was the most truly inept wizard the flat earth of Discworld had ever known. He was a wizard with only one spell, a spell he would never dare to say, one of the Eight Great Spells froth the magical Octavo. So powerful was this magic that ...

  • Equal Rites

    Discworld - 3
    Discworld - Witches - 1

    "THERE'S NO SUCH TIHING AS A FEMALE WIZARD!" But on the Discworld, a flat realm carried by four elephants riding on the back of a giant turtle, there's also no such thing as impossible. And so, a wizard on the brink of death tries to pass on his s...

  • Mort

    Discworld - 4
    Discworld - Death - 1

    SOMETIMES EVEN DEATH NEEDS A HOLIDAY--and on the Discworld, the only Flat Earth in any universe, this skeletal keeper of all the hourglasses of life has suddenly realized the only way he'll ever get a chance for some time off is by taking on an appre...

  • Sourcery

    Discworld - 5
    Discworld - Rincewind - 3

    HE WAS THE EIGHTH SON OF AN EIGHTH SON... Coin's father was a wizard who'd been drummed out of the Unseen University for the unthinkable, unmagical crime of getting married and having eight kids. Everyone knows that the eighth son of the eighth so...

  • Wyrd Sisters

    Discworld - 6
    Discworld - Witches - 2

    ALL THE DISCS A STAGE..:: And when three witches have their monthly cauldron stirring disturbed by murder, mayhem, and the sudden arrival of a royal baby, trouble is bound to be brewed up in the little kingdom of Lancre. Especially when the witche...



  • Pyramids

    Discworld - 7

    Unlike most teenaged boys, Teppic isn't chasing girls and working at the mall. Instead he's just inherited the throne of the desert kingdom of Djelibeybi--a job that's come a bit earlier than he expected (a turn of fate his recently departed father w...

  • Guards! Guards!

    Discworld - 8
    Discworld - City Watch - 1

    THE NIGHT WATCH wasn't respected or well-staffed but it was all Vimes had to be Captain of. And in a town like Anhk-Morpork, where wizards worked any spells they pleased, the thieves and assassins belonged to well-established guilds. For Vimes it als...

  • Truckers

    Bromeliad - 1

    From the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, beloved and bestselling author of the Discworld fantasy series, comes the first book in the comic and insightful Bromeliad trilogy. The nomes are ready for their Bright New Dawn!But the trouble with Bright Ne...

  • Eric

    Discworld - 9
    Discworld - Rincewind - 4

    ERIC IS THE DISCWORLD'S ONLY DEMONOLOGY HACKER. PITY HE'S NOT VFRY GOOD AT IT. All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy--to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usu...

  • Diggers

    Bromeliad - 2

    In a world whose seasons are defined by Christmas sales and Spring Fashions, hundreds of tiny nomes live in the corners and crannies of a human-run department store. They have made their homes beneath the floorboards for generations and no longer rem...

  • Wings

    Bromeliad - 3

    Somewhere out there, the ship is waiting to take them home . . . Here's what Masklin has to do: Find Grandson Richard Arnold (a human!). Get from England to Florida (possibly steal jet plane for this purpose, as that can't be harder than stealing ...

  • Moving Pictures

    Discworld - 10

    Discworld's pesky alchemists are up to their old tricks again. This time, they've discovered how to get gold from silver -- the silver screen that is. Hearing the siren call of Holy Wood is one Victor Tugelbend, a would-be wizard turned extra. He can...

  • Reaper Man

    Discworld - 11
    Discworld - Death - 2

    IT'S A WONDERFUL AFTERLIFE... But if you can't take it with you, why go at all? That's the kind of query troubling Death these days as he begins to ponder some of the P's and Q's of the RIP business. But the last thing the Discworld needs is a squ...

  • Witches Abroad

    Discworld - 12
    Discworld - Witches - 3
    Fairytale Retellings: Cinderella

    DEATH WAITS FOR NO ONE -- NOT EVEN A FAIRY GODMOTHER... So when Desiderata waited a little too long to find a successor, it was up to the Discworld's own zany version of the three witches--Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg--to grab ...

  • Only You Can Save Mankind

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy
    Johnny Maxwell - 1

    The alien spaceship is in his sights. His finger is on the Fire button. Johnny Maxwell is about to set the new high score on the computer game Only You Can Save Mankind. Suddenly: We wish to talk. Huh? We surrender. The aliens aren't supposed to ...



  • Small Gods

    Discworld - 13

    Internationally acclaimed author Terry Pratchett takes the name of religion humorously in vain in this classic tale of gods, miracles, and monsters. A simple lad who can neither read nor write, Brutha is content growing melons for the Temple monks. B...

  • Lords and Ladies

    Discworld - 14
    Discworld - Witches - 4

    Although they may feature witches and wizards, vampires and dwarves, along with the occasional odd human, Terry Pratchett's bestselling Discworld novels are grounded firmly in the modern world. Taking humorous aim at all our foibles, each novel revea...

  • Johnny and the Dead

    • / Science Fiction
    • Buy Buy
    Johnny Maxwell - 2

    Sell the cemetery? Over their dead bodies. Not many people can see the dead (not many would want to). Twelve-year-old Johnny Maxwell can. And he's got bad news for them: the council want to sell the cemetery as a building site. But the dead have ...

  • Men at Arms

    Discworld - 15
    Discworld - City Watch - 2

    A YOUNG DWARF'S DREAM Corporal Carrot has been promoted! He's now in charge of the new recruits guarding Ankh-Morpork, Discworld's greatest city, from Barbarian Tribes, Miscellaneous Marauders, unlicensed Thieves, and such. It's a big job, particula...

  • The Discworld Companion

    Discworld Companion - 1

    For the newcomer and old hand alike the Discworld can be a fatally confusing planet. From the great city of Ankh-Morpork, featuring a river you could skateboard across if it wasn't so knobbly, to the distant Ramtop Mountains and mysterious Counterwei...

  • Soul Music

    Discworld - 16
    Discworld - Death - 3

    When her dear old Granddad -- the Grim Reaper himself -- goes missing, Susan takes over the family business. The progeny of Death's adopted daughter and his apprentice, she shows real talent for the trade. That is until a little string in her heart g...

  • The Streets of Ankh Morpork

    Discworld Maps - 1

    'THERE'S A SAYING THAT ALL ROADS LEAD TO ANKH-MORPORK. AND IT'S WRONG. ALL ROADS LEAD AWAY FROM ANKH-MORPORK, BUT SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUST WALK ALONG THE WRONG WAY' from Moving Pictures Ankh-Morpork! City of One Thousand Surprises (according to the famo...

  • Interesting Times

    Discworld - 17
    Discworld - Rincewind - 5

    "May you live in interesting times." --Ancient Curse When a carrier albatross arrives with an Urgent Request for a "Great Wizard," Rincewind finds himself summoned to the endangered Empire of Hong, Sung, Fang, Tang, and McSweeney, where a new Emp...

  • The Discworld Mapp

    Discworld Maps - 2

    They said it couldn't be done. Well, it has been done, proving them wrong once again. After years of research, cunningly contrived in as many minutes, the Discworld has its map. It takes full account of the historic and much documented expeditions of...

  • Maskerade

    Discworld - 18
    Discworld - Witches - 5

    IT'S NOT OVER TILL THE FAT LADY SINGS There's a Ghost in the Opera House of Ankh-Morpork. It wears a bone-white mask and terrorizes the entire company, including the immortal Enrico Basilica, who eats continuously even when he's singing. Mostly sp...



  • Johnny and the Bomb

    Johnny Maxwell - 3

    Johnny Maxwell and his friends have to do something when they find Mrs Tachyon, the local bag lady, semi-conscious in an alley ...as long as it's not the kiss of life. But there's more to Mrs Tachyon than a squeaky trolley and a bunch of dubious bla...

  • Feet of Clay

    Discworld - 19
    Discworld - City Watch - 3

    MURDER IN DISCWORLD A killer is stalking Ankh-Morpork. A grim reaper who belongs to neither the Assassins' Guild nor the Thieves' Guild. A prowling perp who jauntily leaves behind corpses and strange-smelling tracks of curious white clay. Comma...

  • Hogfather

    Discworld - 20
    Discworld - Death - 4

    It's that most wonderful time of the year, Hogswatchnight, when the Hogfather himself dons his red suit and climbs in his sleigh pulled by--of course!--eight hogs, bringing gifts to all the boys and girls of Discworld. But this year someone else is r...

  • Discworld's Unseen University Diary 1998

    Discworld Companion - 2

    As well as comprising a functional diary with necessary dates, holidays, notes and year planner, this book has the "8th Discworld Day" in each week. Also included is a brief history of Discworld, a guide to the people and places, events in the Discwo...

  • Jingo

    Discworld - 21
    Discworld - City Watch - 4

    Something, new has come up between the ancient rival cities of Ankh-Morpork and Al-Khali. Literally. An island, rising out of Discworld's circular sea. Since it's uninhabited and claimed by both cities, Commander Vimes and his faithful trolls and ...

  • A Tourist Guide to Lancre

    Discworld Maps - 3

    Not only an artistic and breathtaking view of Lancre but also an interesting and informative guide to one of the Discworld's more, er, picturesque kingdoms.Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick live there. Lancre could hardly be somwhere o...

  • The Last Continent

    Discworld - 22
    Discworld - Rincewind - 6

    Something is amiss at Unseen University, Ankh-Morpork's most prestigious (i.e., only) institution of higher learning. A professor is missing--but a search party is on the way! A bevy of senior wizards will follow the trail wherever it leads--even to ...

  • Discworld's Ankh Morpork City Watch Diary 1999

    Discworld Companion - 3

    This diary and handbook ensures that those noble defenders of the greatest city of the Discworld need never be late for a crime again. It is a fully-functioning diary with dates, holidays (including pagan holidays), notes and year planner. It also in...

  • Discworld Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000

    Discworld Companion - 4

    The Ankh-Morpork Assassins' Guild* in its modern form is the result of Lord Vetinari's distinctive civic policy, and is renowned across the Discworld. It offers the best all-round education in the world, because a qualified assassin should be at home...

  • The Science Of Discworld

    Science of Discworld - 1

    When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe, of course, is our...



  • The First Discworld Novels

    This is how the Discworld began. Here is the sapient pearwood Luggage, a mobile trunk which launders any clothes put in it and incidentally homicidally defends its owner. Here is Twoflower, an innocent tourist in a world of nightmares and fairy tales...

  • Carpe Jugulum

    Discworld - 23
    Discworld - Witches - 6

    In this latest satiric triumph, King Verence, in a fit of enlightened democracy and ebullient goodwill, unthinkingly invites Uberwald's undead, the Magpyrs, into Lancre to celebrate the birth of his daughter. But everyone knows you don't invite a vam...

  • Nanny Ogg's Cookbook

    Discworld Companion - 5

    Steel yourselves - Nanny Ogg is passing on some of her most interesting recipes and her most refined wisdom.'Probably the best and certainly the tastiest of the Discworld spin-offs' - The Times'They say that the way to a man's heart is through his st...

  • The Fifth Elephant

    Discworld - 24
    Discworld - City Watch - 5

    Everyone knows that the world is flat, and supported on the backs of four elephants. But weren't there supposed to be five? Indeed there were. So where is it?... When duty calls. Commander Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork constabulary answers. Even when ...

  • Discworld Fools' Guild Diary 2001

    Discworld Companion - 6

    Contrast the Fools' Guild with the Assassins' Guild next door: one is pleasant, light and airy and the corridors echo with the quiet activity of people working hard to master a job they love; the other is gaunt, forbidding and silent, except for the ...

  • The Truth

    Discworld - 25

    The denizens of Ankh-Morpork fancy they've seen just about everything. But then comes the Ankh-Morpork Times, struggling scribe William de Worde's upper-crust, newsletter turned Discworld's first paper of record. An ethical joulnalist, de Worde ha...

  • Thief of Time

    Discworld - 26
    Discworld - Death - 5

    Everybody wants more time, which is why on Discworld only the experts can manage it--the venerable Monks of History who store it and pump it from where it's wasted, like underwater (how much time does a codfish really need?), to places like cities, w...

  • Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook & Diary 2002

    Discworld Companion - 7

    The latest in the highly-successful series of Discworld diaries, featuring extensive original material by Terry Pratchett. The Thieves' Guild celebrates its 21st anniversary with its first Yearbook, featuring an address from Lord Vetinari himself, wh...

  • The Last Hero

    Discworld - 27
    Discworld - Rincewind - 7

    Cohen the Barbarian. He's been a legend in his own lifetime. He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn't have to worry about aching backs and lawyers and civilization. But these days, he can't alwa...

  • The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents

    Discworld - 28

    The Amazing Maurice runs the perfect Pied Piper scam. This streetwise alley cat knows the value of cold, hard cash and can talk his way into and out of anything. But when Maurice and his cohorts decide to con the town of Bad Blinitz, it will take mor...



  • The Science of Discworld II: The Globe

    Science of Discworld - 2

    The acclaimed Science of Discworld centred around an original Pratchett story about the Wizards of Discworld. In it they accidentally witnessed the creation and evolution of our universe, a plot which was interleaved with a Cohen & Stewart non-fictio...

  • Death's Domain

    Discworld Maps - 4

    This discworld map reveals the house and garden that Death built. It shows the golf course that's not so much crazy as insane, as well as the dark gardens. You can also find out the reason why Death can't understand rockeries, and what happens to gar...

  • The Discworld (Reformed) Vampyre's Diary 2003

    Discworld Companion - 8

    RULES OF THE UBERWALD LEAGUE OF TEMPERANCE ANKH-MORPORK: MISSION OBJECT To further the cause of temperance and of total abstinence from drinking human blood (The Old Practice), to provide recreation and means of social intercourse for its member...

  • The Unadulterated Cat

    The unadulterated cat is becoming an endangered species as more and more people settle for the mass-produced cats that advertisers sell us. But the Campaign for Real Cats sets out to change all that by showing what a real cat is like and it doesn't w...

  • Night Watch

    Discworld - 29
    Discworld - City Watch - 6

    One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monk...

  • The Wee Free Men

    Discworld - 30
    Discworld - A Tiffany Aching Adventure - 1

    A nightmarish danger threatens from the other side of reality ... Armed with only a frying pan and her common sense, young witch-to-be Tiffany Aching must defend her home against the monsters of Fairyland. Luckily she has some very unusual help: t...

  • Monstrous Regiment

    Discworld - 31

    War has come to Disc world . . . again. And, to no one's great surprise, the conflict centers around the small, arrogantly fundamentalist duchy of Borogravia, which has long prided itself on its unrelenting aggressiveness. A year ago, Polly Perks'...

  • The New Discworld Companion

    The Discworld is an unpredictable place, what with rivers you can skateboard across (if they weren't so knobbly), rocks that like a stroll about of an evening and points of raw magic that can turn a body inside out soon as look at it. For safety's sa...

  • A Hat Full of Sky

    Discworld - 32
    Discworld - A Tiffany Aching Adventure - 2

    Witch-in-training Tiffany Aching hadn't expected magic to involve chores and ill-tempered nanny goats! But as Tiffany pursues her calling, a sinister monster pursues Tiffany, and neither Mistress Weatherwax (the greatest witch in the world) nor the s...

  • The Discworld Almanak: The Year of the Prawn

    Discworld Companion - 9

    In this latest accessory to the Discworld phenomenon, Terry Pratchett joins forces with Bernard Pearson to produce the definitive Almanak to the Common Year of the Prawn, for the city of Ankh-Morpork and Surrounding Areas & Benefices. Here you will f...

  • Going Postal

    Discworld - 33
    Discworld - Moist von Lipwig - 1

    Suddenly, condemned arch-swindler Moist von Lipwig found himself with a noose around his neck and dropping through a trapdoor into ... a government job? By all rights, Moist should be meeting his maker rather than being offered a position as Postm...

  • The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch

    Science of Discworld - 3

    The wizards discover to their cost that it’s no easy task to change history.

    Roundworld is in trouble again, and this time it looks fatal. Having created it in the first place, the wizards of Unseen University feel vaguely responsible for it...

  • Where's My Cow?

    Discworld - 34.5

    “At six o’clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, Sam Vimes must go home to read Where’s My Cow?, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do.It is the most loved and chewed book in the wo...

  • Thud!

    Discworld - 34
    Discworld - City Watch - 7

    Once, in a gods-forsaken hellhole called Koom Valley, trolls and dwarfs met in bloody combat. Centuries later, each species still views the other with simmering animosity. Lately, the influential dwarf, Grag Hamcrusher, has been fomenting unrest amon...

  • Masters of Fantasy

    "Masters of Fantasy" has a star-studded cast of popular fantasy writers, with brand new adventures set in their most popular series. David Weber, author of the New York Times best-selling "Honor Harrington" series, is equally a master of fantasy in h...

  • The Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook: Discworld Diary 2007

    Discworld Companion - 10

    The Post Office: this musty, dusty and sh***y organisation was jolted back into life in GOING POSTAL. Hidebound and rulebound, the Post Office is creaking towards a brave new world of efficiency - and it may even deliver the mail, too. But like all b...

  • The Art Of Discworld

    Discworld Companion - 11

    In THE ART OF DISCWORLD, Terry Pratchett takes us on a guided tour of the Discworld, courtesy of his favourite Discworld artist, Paul Kidby. Following on from THE LAST HERO, THE ART OF DISCWORLD is a lavish 112-page large format, sumptuously illustra...

  • Wintersmith

    Discworld - 35
    Discworld - A Tiffany Aching Adventure - 3

    At 9, Tiffany Aching defeated the cruel Queen of Fairyland. At 11, she battled an ancient body-stealing evil. At 13, Tiffany faces a new challenge: a boy. And boys can be a bit of a problem when you're thirteen. . . . But the Wintersmith ...

  • Lu-Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment 2008

    Discworld Companion - 12

    Lu-Tze is a senior History Monk, also known as Sweeper. Although thought to be 800 years old, there are some who claim he is older yet ...5,200 years older, in fact, because for the History Monks, time is a resource to manipulate, and they do ...Lu-T...

  • Making Money

    Discworld - 36
    Discworld - Moist von Lipwig - 2

    Amazingly, former arch-swindler-turned-Postmaster General Moist von Lipwig has somehow managed to get the woefully inefficient Ankh-Morpork Post Office running like ... well, not like a government office at all. Now the supreme despot Lord Vetinari i...

  • Nation

    The sea has taken everything. Mau is the only one left after a giant wave sweeps his island village away. But when much is taken, something is returned, and somewhere in the jungle Daphne--a girl from the other side of the globe--is the sole surv...

  • The Folklore of Discworld

    Discworld Companion - 13

    Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth.

    Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what h...

  • The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld

    Discworld Companion - 14

    For more than two decades, Terry Pratchett has been regaling readers with tales of Discworld -- a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants, which are standing on the back of a giant turtle, flying through space. It is a world populated by i...

  • Unseen Academicals

    Discworld - 37

    The wizards at Ankh-Morpork's Unseen University are renowned for many things -- wisdom, magic, their love of teatime -- but athletics is most assuredly not on the list. So when Lord Vetinari, the city's benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archcha...

  • I Shall Wear Midnight

    Discworld - 38
    Discworld - A Tiffany Aching Adventure - 4

    As the witch of the Chalk, Tiffany Aching performs the distinctly unglamorous work of caring for the needy. But someone -- or something -- is inciting fear, generating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Tiffany must find the source of u...

  • Snuff

    Discworld - 39

    For nearly three decades, Terry Pratchett has enthralled millions of fans worldwide with his irreverent, wonderfully funny satires set in the fabulously imaginative Discworld, a universe remarkably similar to our own. From sports to religion, politic...

  • The World of Poo

    Discworld - 39.5

    'A gloriously old-fashioned and funny story... A brilliant choice for reading aloud.' Evening StandardThe World of Poo tells of a boy’s adventure in his first visit to the mighty Discworld metropolis of Ankh-Morpork. As featured in Terry Pratchett...

  • Dodger

    A storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horse-drawn carriage in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he's . ....

  • The Compleat Ankh-Morpork: City Guide

    Discworld Maps - 5

    A brand-new street directory of Discworld city Ankh-Morpork complete with a beautifully illustrated pull-out map. 'There's a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it's wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people j...

  • The Science of Discworld IV: Judgement Day

    Science of Discworld - 4

    A brilliant new Discworld story from Terry Pratchett combined with cutting-edge science and philosophy from Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen. This time the trio take on THE REALLY BIG QUESTIONS -- God, the Universe and, frankly, Everything Else. T...

  • Raising Steam

    Discworld - 40

    Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man with a flat cap and a sliding rule. He has produced a great clanging monster of a machine that harnesses the power of all of the elements -- earth, air, fire, and water -- and it’s so...

  • The Folklore of Discworld: Legends, Myths, and Customs from the Discworld wit

    Discworld Companion - 15

    Terry Pratchett joins up with a leading folklorist to reveal the legends, myths and customs of Discworld, together with helpful hints from Planet Earth. Most of us grew up having always known when to touch wood or cross our fingers, and what happe...

  • Discworld Diary 2015: We R Igors: First and Last Aid

    Discworld Companion - 16

    One part diary, one part guide to the arcane practices of the funniest creation in modern fantasy, 100% Discworld goodness. With their trademark mix of cultural ephemera, background detail and hilarious one-liners, the Discworld diaries are back. And...

  • A Slip of the Keyboard

    A collection of essays and other non fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from his early years to the present day. Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discw...

  • Mrs Bradshaw's Handbook

    Discworld - 40.5

    A Discworld artefact -- Georgina Bradshaw's guide to the railways of Raising Steam. Authorised by Mr Lipwig of the Ankh-Morpork and Sto Plains Hygienic Railway himself, Mrs Georgina Bradshaw’s invaluable guide to the destinations and diversions...

  • The Abominable Snowman

    Scale the heights of fun and adventure in this witty children’s tale from the New York Times bestselling author of the Discworld series.   Captain the Honorable Sir Herbert Stephen Ernest Boring-Tristam-Boring (known as Bill) is...

  • Dragons at Crumbling Castle and Other Tales

    This never-before-published collection of fourteen funny and inventive tales by acclaimed author Sir Terry Pratchett features a memorable cast of inept wizards, sensible heroes, and unusually adventuresome tortoises. Including more than one hundre...

  • A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction

    A collection of short fiction from Terry Pratchett, spanning the whole of his writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day. In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world...

  • Turtle Recall

    For every Pratchett fan, the must-have fully updated guidebook to Discworld! The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants that, in turn, stand on the shell of the giant star turtle, the Great A'Tuin, as...

  • Discworld Diary 2016: A Practical Manual for the Modern Witch

    Discworld Companion - 17

    One part diary, one part guide to the arcane practices of the funniest creation in modern fantasy, 100% Discworld goodness. With their trademark mix of cultural ephemera, background detail and hilarious one-liners, the Discworld diaries are back. And...

  • The Shepherd's Crown

    Discworld - 41
    Discworld - A Tiffany Aching Adventure - 5

    A SHIVERING OF WORLDS Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a ...

  • The Compleat Discworld Atlas

    Discworld Maps - 6

    Unseen University are proud to present the most comprehensive map and guide to the Disc yet produced. In this noble endeavour, drawing upon the hard won knowledge of many great and, inevitably, late explorers, one may locate on a detailed plan of ...

  • Seriously Funny

    ‘I’ll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there’s evidence of any thinking going on inside it.’
    The most quotable writer of our time, Terry Pratchett’s unique brand of wit made him both a bestseller an...

  • The Witch's Vacuum Cleaner

    Do you believe in magic? Can you imagine a war between wizards? An exciting journey in an airship or down in a submarine? Would you like to meet the fastest truncheon in the Wild West? The Witch’s Vacuum Cleaner is the second fabulously funny sh...

  • Father Christmas's Fake Beard

    A collection of wonderful Christmas stories from the fantastically funny Terry Pratchett. With incredible illustrations from Mark Beech, it''s the perfect stocking filler!

    Have you ever wanted Christmas to be different?

    Turkey and carols, pr...

  • Terry Pratchett

    Somewhere on the frontier between thought and reality exists the Discworld, a parallel time and place which might sound and smell very much like our own, but which looks completely different…

    Collected together for the first time are seven ...

  • The Yiddish Color of Magic

    The first time in Yiddish!

    The bizarre and fantastic tale of Discworld and Rincewind, the not-very-good wizard.

    The first Tourist and his Baggage of sapient pearwood.

    The Discworld rests on the backs of four huge elephants, which...

  • Death and Friends, A Discworld Journal

    There's nothing like a journal to get you thinking about life, the universe, and a Disc suspended by four elephants standing atop a giant turtle. Who better to help you than Death, Sir Terry Pratchett's most enduring anthropomorphic personificatio...

  • The Time-travelling Caveman

    *A brand new collection of short stories from the incredible Sir Terry Pratchett!*

    Imagination is an amazing thing.

    It can take you to the top of the highest mountain, or down to the bottom of the deepest depths of the sea.

    This where i...

  • The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume One

    Think you know Ankh-Morpork? Think again.

    In this top-secret guide, intrepid explorers will receive a first-hand experience of the real city.

    If you've ever wondered where Unseen University students wet their whistles (while avoiding th...

  • The Ultimate Discworld Companion

    The absolute, comprehensive, from Tiffany Aching to Jack Zweiblumen guide to all things Discworld, fully illustrated by Paul Kidby.The Discworld, as everyone knows, is a flat world balanced on the back of four elephants which, in turn, stand on the s...

  • The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume Two

  • A Stroke of the Pen: The Lost Stories

    "If you read just one of Pratchett’s books, you’ll want to read everything he wrote. That now includes A Stroke of the Pen.”  --  Washington PostA delightfully funny, fantastically inventive collection of twenty newly unearthed s...

  • The Color of Magic

    “In the history of comic fantasy, Mr. Pratchett has no equals for invention or for range. . . . Those who don’t [know him] can do no better than to buy installment No. 1, The Color of Magic and read right the way through.”̵...

Award-Winning Books by Terry Pratchett

The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents
2001 Carnegie Medal -- Children's
A Hat Full of Sky
2005 Locus Award -- Young Adult
2007 Young Reader's Choice Award -- Senior/Grades 10-12
Making Money
2008 Locus Award -- Fantasy Novel
Nation
2008 L.A. Times Book Prize -- Young Adult Literature
2009 Boston Globe-Horn Book Award -- Fiction & Poetry
The Shepherd's Crown
2016 Dragon Award -- Young Adult / Middle Grade Novel
2016 Locus Award -- Young Adult
The Wee Free Men
2004 Locus Award -- Young Adult
Wintersmith
2007 Locus Award -- Young Adult


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The first book by Terry Pratchett, The Carpet People, was published in December 1971.

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