WINNER OF THE 2023 LOCUS AWARD FOR NON-FICTIONWINNER OF THE BRITISH SCIENCE FICTION ASSOCIATION
AWARD FOR BEST NON-FICTION 'Always readable illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real
Terry.' - Neil Gaiman 'Sometimes joyfully sometimes painfully intimate . . . it is wonderful
to have this closeup picture of the writer's working life.' - Frank Cottrell-Boyce Observer
-------- At the time of his death in 2015 award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry
Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own. The creator of the phenomenally
bestselling Discworld series Terry Pratchett was known and loved around the world for his
hugely popular books his smart satirical humour and the humanity of his campaign work. But
that's only part of the picture. Before his untimely death Terry was writing a memoir: the
story of a boy who aged six was told by his teacher that he would never amount to anything and
spent the rest of his life proving him wrong. For Terry lived a life full of astonishing
achievements: becoming one of the UK's bestselling and most beloved writers winning the
prestigious Carnegie Medal and being awarded a knighthood. Now the book Terry sadly couldn't
finish has been written by Rob Wilkins his former assistant friend and now head of the
Pratchett literary estate. Drawing on his own extensive memories along with those of the
author's family friends and colleagues Rob unveils the full picture of Terry's life - from
childhood to his astonishing writing career and how he met and coped with what he called the
'Embuggerance' of Alzheimer's disease. A deeply moving and personal portrait of the
extraordinary life of Sir Terry Pratchett written with unparalleled insight and filled with
funny anecdotes this is the only official biography of one of our finest authors. --------
'Spins magic from mundanity in precisely the way Pratchett himself did.' - Telegraph 'As frank
funny and unsentimental as anything its subject might have produced himself.' - Mail on Sunday
