This website uses cookies to improve your experience. In October 2008 the Polish company, Micro-Art Studios, began producing Discworld miniatures under licence, based on Paul Kidby’s illustrations. Sky invested more in this production than in any previous they’d commissioned, and their confidence was more than justified by the viewing figures of 2.8 million for this £6 million project, making it the highest rated multi-channel commission ever (to that time), beating BBC3’s October 2006 figures for Torchwood. Also in 1990, Clarecraft Designs, a company in Suffolk, founded by Bernard Pearson, was licensed to produce a series of models of Discworld characters, and before it closed in 2005 it had produced over 200 figurines, many of which were also produced as pewter miniatures. All the Discworld novels take place on a flat, circular world which sits on the back of four elephants, which stand on the back of a giant star turtle. The principal witch in the series is Granny Weatherwax, who at first glance seems to be a taciturn, bitter old crone, from the small mountain country of Lancre. The next, Carpe Jugulum, in which the witches battle vampires for the Kingdom of Lancre, was published on 5th November and it and the paperback edition of Jingo (published on the same day) jointly held the no.1 positions in the hardcover and paperback fiction lists for four weeks running. The two hour documentary by IWC Media for the BBC, ‘Living with Alzheimer’s’ was shown on BBC2 on 4th/5th February 2009 as part of BBC Headroom, the BBC’s two-year mental health and wellbeing initiative, and received two BAFTA awards. These cookies do not store any personal information. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Additionally, another short story "Turntables of the Night" (1989) is set in England but features Death as a character; it is available online and in both anthologies. So he resigned his position with the CEGB and his sales – and income – picked up very much more quickly than he expected. . Terry faced his Alzheimer’s disease (an ’embuggerance’, as he called it) publicly and bravely. He grew up to become the UK’s best-selling author of the 1990’s and is known globally as the creator of the Discworld fantasy novels, a series numbering 40 volumes. You can't map a sense of humour,"[23] there are six "Mapps": The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (1993), The Discworld Mapp (1995), A Tourist Guide to Lancre (1998), and Death's Domain (1999). Sorry, should've been clearer. [citation needed]. His particular variant leaves the cognitive parts of the mind virtually untouched, as anyone who saw or heard him on TV, radio or elsewhere can vouch. She largely despises people but takes on the role of their healer and protector because no one else can do the job as well as she can. [84][85], On 5 November 2019, the BBC News listed The Discworld Series on its list of the 100 most influential novels. . The Discworld Almanak – The Year of The Prawn has a similar format and general contents to the diaries. The Wizards of the Unseen University (UU) have represented a strong thread through many of the Discworld novels, although the only books that they star in exclusively are The Science of the Discworld series and the novels Unseen Academicals and The Last Continent. He married Lyn Purves at the Congregational Church in Gerrard’s Cross in October 1968, by which time he had interviewed Peter Bander van Duren, one of the directors of publishing company Colin Smythe Limited, for the Bucks Free Press about a book he had edited.

Terry was now in line for a bright future. His vociferous support seemed to be having a positive effect on the government, but supportive words from ex-PM Gordon Brown were sadly not backed up by action. Discworld novels have also won awards such as the Prometheus Award and the Carnegie Medal. Terry’s work for the Orangutan Foundation is common knowledge. The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic,[34] Mort,[35] Guards! The Discworld is the fictional setting of Terry Pratchett’s most iconic fantasy novel series. His 2011 Discworld novel ‘Snuff’ was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-audience novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days.