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Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes

The moving and joyously funny must-read official biography of one of our finest storytellers

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'PEOPLE THINK THAT STORIES ARE SHAPED BY PEOPLE. IN FACT, IT'S THE OTHER WAY AROUND.'

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.

At six years old, Terry was told by his headteacher that he would never amount to anything. He spent the rest of his life proving that teacher wrong. At sixty-six, Terry had lived a life full of achievements: becoming one of the UK's bestselling writers, winning the Carnegie Medal and being awarded a knighthood for services to literature.

Following his untimely death from Alzheimer's disease, the mantle of completing Terry's memoir was passed to Rob Wilkins, his former assistant, friend and now head of the author's literary estate.

Drawing on his own extensive memories, along with those of Terry's family, friends, fans and colleagues, Rob recounts Terry's extraordinary story - from his early childhood to the literary phenomenon that his Discworld series became; and how he met and coped with the challenges that 'The Embuggerance' of Alzheimer's brought with it.

'Of all the dead authors in the world, Terry Pratchett is the most alive.' - John Lloyd

'Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.' - Neil Gaiman

© Rob Wilkins 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

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Always readable, illuminating and honest. It made me miss the real Terry.
Heart breaking and funny . . . sometimes joyfully, sometimes painfully, intimate . . . it is wonderful to have this closeup picture of the writer's working life. (Frank Cottrell-Boyce)
The joy of this biography . . . is that it spins magic from mundanity in precisely the way Pratchett himself did.
No one, after Pratchett's wife, Lyn, and daughter, Rhianna, knew the author as well as Wilkins. I wept through the last 20 pages - beautifully done - charting Pratchett's decline in a way that is both sensitive and unsparing.
Fond, funny and conveys a pitch-perfect sense of how Pratchett managed to take the elements of his 1950s working-class childhood . . . and turn it into a universe of limitless richness and invention.
The friendship and affection between the pair shines through every page . . . Of course, [Pratchett] fans will love the book . . . and even casual readers will delight in tales of his idiosyncratic passions.
A biography almost as funny and perceptive as one of Terry's novels . . . a rich, deeply affectionate portrait of a unique personality . . . it's a joy to see the much-missed author spring back into technicolour life in this fascinating and deeply moving tribute.
A moving and acutely observed account . . . Pratchett's magical mind, and dementia, by the man who knew him best.
Wilkins has many advantages over most biographers, having not only known his subject well, but taken down notes while he was alive for his projected memoir. The result, at times, is like a ventriloquist act, with Pratchett's voice and personality emerging loud and clear.
Both more and less than a biography . . . full of insights and revelations, in many ways the sort of thing Prathett might have written about himself, proud of what has been done, honest about the process . . . written with intelligence and compassion. (Christopher Priest)
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So far I have seen, read and listened too The Colour of Magic, Going Postal, Wyrd Sisters, Guards Guards, The Truth (my favourite so far, and if I ever become a movie director which I am currently studying to do, then I would like to make the story into a Movie. I think The Truth is an excelent story for a 2 to 3 hour Film. Maybe 4 hours for an extended edition.), Night Watch and Making Money. Now I want to get the rest of 'em too. Discworld I am comiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing!!!

This Book turned me from a disk-reader into a fan.

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This is by far the most insightful, funny and moving biography I have ever read. Masterfully narrated as well. 10/10

Utterly Wonderful

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Did not read his books so far, will do now. Impressive author, well known. If you disagree: write his name wrong, even Autocorrect know him - that’s true fame!

Extraordinary

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This book, like many of Pratchetts work, made me laugh, cry, ponder and sit in amazement. I have loved Pratchetts books for 25 or so years, and having Rob read this biography gave me the feeling to get to know him even more than through his books. He surely was no easy and straight forward human, but he was clearly caring and driven and insanely talented. I loved this book, even though I spend the last chapters of it sobbing.

Laugh and cry

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I listened to the last chapters while cycling through the fields near my hometown. It was getting close to sunset (how appropriate, how stagey) when Rob Wilkins ended with the epiloge. At this stage I could have done without the Audible end credits. 2kms of silence. Then I started to cry. I kept cycling. I kept crying. And as there were about 5 kms to go before I'd be home, I was so very glad that I had one or two (or possibly more) Discworld novels on my smartphone. I chose "Equal Rites". The combination of not-quite-young-anymore Granny Weatherwax and very young Eskarina seemed a good antidote.

Thank you for this story about Terry Pratchett (I almost feel like calling him Terry after listening to the whole book but I don't quite dare).
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