In 2008, Harper Children's published Terry's standalone non-Discworld YA novel, Nation. The first of these, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, won the Carnegie Medal.Ī non-Discworld book, Good Omens, his 1990 collaboration with Neil Gaiman, has been a longtime bestseller and was reissued in hardcover by William Morrow in early 2006 (it is also available as a mass market paperback - Harper Torch, 2006 - and trade paperback - Harper Paperbacks, 2006). There are over 40 books in the Discworld series, of which four are written for children. Terry worked for many years as a journalist and press officer, writing in his spare time and publishing a number of novels, including his first Discworld novel, The Color of Magic, in 1983. His first novel, a humorous fantasy entitled The Carpet People, appeared in 1971 from the publisher Colin Smythe. This is a minor point, but I found it annoying at times.Born Terence David John Pratchett, Sir Terry Pratchett sold his first story when he was thirteen, which earned him enough money to buy a second-hand typewriter. Jarvis often runs directly from one thread to another without supplying any audio indication that the story line was changing. Normally readers, when coming across those kind of breaks, supply their own silence to let listeners know that a different story thread is picking up, but Mr. Martin Jarvis should have paid more attention to those places in the book where line spacing was used to separate different threads of the story. I have only one complaint about the way this book was read.

So while I strongly recommend this book, that recommendation is mostly aimed at those who understand and appreciate British humor. When my sister read this book her comment was that she thought it was trying to be funny, but she kept missing the point of the jokes. It has always made me feel better when I was a little depressed and I have been waiting for it to come to Audible US even since I saw it on the British Audible website (It is a wonderfully funny book with much to say about what we call 'the human condition' and I love it, but I feel I should warn potential readers that the humor is decidedly British. I have had this book in print format since 1990 and have probably read it at least 15 times.

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