Friday, June 1, 2012

Terry Pratchett news




“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a policeman taking a holiday would barely have had time to open his suitcase before he finds his first corpse.” So it says on the back cover of Terry Pratchett’s Snuff, now out as a paperback from Corgi (£7.99). This is sure to appeal to Discworld fans, as will Miss Felicity Beedle’s The World of Poo by Terry Pratchett (out this month on Doubleday at £12.99):

“Vimes' prompt arrival got a nod of approval from Sybil, who gingerly handed him a new book to read to Young Sam. Vimes looked at the cover. The title was The World of Poo. When his wife was out of eyeshot he carefully leafed through it. Well, okay, you had to accept that the world had moved on and these days fairy stories were probably not going to be about twinkly little things with wings. As he turned page after page, it dawned on him that whoever had written this book, they certainly knew what would make kids like Young Sam laugh until they were nearly sick.”

The World of Poo is a beautifully designed slim hardcover. It has all the appearances of a classy children’s book, with colourful; endpapers and many line drawings, throughout.

Terry Pratchett has teamed up with Stephen Baxter to write The Long Earth (Doubleday £18.99):

“1916: the Western Front. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where have the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man's Land gone? 

2015: Madison, Wisconsin. Cop Monica Jansson is exploring the burned-out home of a reclusive - some said mad, others dangerous - scientist when she finds a curious gadget - a box containing some wiring, a three-way switch and a...potato. It is the prototype of an invention that will change the way Mankind views his world for ever. 

And that's an understatement if ever there was one...”

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