Terry Pratchett

A tsunami leaves a boy dealing with the trauma of burying his people in Nation, Terry Pratchett's latest Carnegie-shortlisted novel – a book he says he's been preparing to write all his life. Here he is discussing it in Andrew Johnson's article in The Independent. In addition, Pratchett has set up a new prize Anywhere But Here, Anywhen But Now for debut novelists resident in the UK, Ireland or the Commonwealth. It's an odd title, but he gives a long explanation which begins: "Anywhere but here, anywhen but now. Which means we are after stories set on Earth, although it may be an Earth that might have been, or might yet be, one that has gone down a different leg of the famous trousers of time (see the illustration in almost every book about quantum theory)."

We have Nation and other Terry Pratchett books in our catalogue.

Horn Book Jan/Feb 2010

Acceptance speeches from Terry Pratchett, Margaret Mahy and Polly Dunbar for their Boston Globe-Horn Book Awards for Excellence in Children's Literature are the main feature in the new Horn Book. Pratchett won the Fiction and Poetry Prize for Nation and Mahy and Dunbar won the Picture Book Prize for Bubble Trouble. We have both books in stock, and find the Horn Book on the Serials Gallery at S824.

Terry Pratchett and the Bookwitch

Here's an entertaining interview with Terry Pratchett from the Bookwitch's blog, followed by an account of a talk he gave at the National Theatre. Oh dear, part of it features a librarian who doesn't come out of it very well. But we're not all the same!