Pratchett Facts
from teh BBC ...
Everyone has heard of Terry Pratchett and a huge amount of you will have
read at least one of his books.
He is one of the most popular authors writing
today.
He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to
get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'.
Terry was born on 28 April 1948 in Beaconsfield, Bucks.
His life changed at the age of 10 when he was given a copy of Wind in
the Willows and he became a voracious reader.
When he was 13, his first short story was published in his school magazine.
He went on to sell it to Science Fantasy magazine for £14 and spent his
winnings on a typewriter.
Encouraged by this success, he left school at 17 to work in local journalism.
His latest book "The
Wee Free Men" is out in the shops.
It is part of the Discworld series and is aimed at children from 9 years
of age upwards.
However, if like many, you are an adult Discworld fan you will no doubt
find it just as funny and cleverly written as his other books.
The story:
"Up on the chalk downs they call The Wold, witches are banned - ever since
the Baron's son vanished in the woods.
Anyway, as all witches know, chalk's no good for magic.
Nine-year-old Tiffany Aching thinks her Granny Aching - a wise shepherd
- might have been a witch, but now Granny Aching is dead and it's up to
Tiffany to work it all out when strange things begin happening: a fairy-tale
monster in the stream, a headless horseman and, strangest of all, the
tiny blue men in kilts, the Wee Free Men, who have come looking for the
new 'hag'.
These are the Nac Mac Feegles, the pictsies, who like nothing better
than thievin', fightin' and drinkin'.
Then Tiffany's young brother goes missing and Tiffany and the Wee Free
Men must join forces to save him from the Queen of the Fairies…
As Tiffany embarks on her dangerous adventure to rescue her brother,
Pratchett explores the eternal mysteries of death, love, duty, and the
use of power - and has a lot of fun along the way.
The Wee Free Men themselves are brilliantly conceived characters, deeply
human, profoundly Scots, almost unintelligible at time, and extremely
funny".
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