Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes: The Official Biography

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Neil, who had been spending that time thinking about his series The Sandman, for DC Comics, said he hadn’t really given it another thought. The unique humour and storytelling that carries you along in all of the adventure’s in Prattchett’s fiction is present throughout this biography which is filled with characters and situations as colourful and as rich as those from his books, making this a really enjoyable read. Knowing how his life story ends adds that bittersweetness even to the most lighthearted moments (of which there were thankfully many). Pratchett left instructions that, on his death, the hard drive from his computer be removed and run over by a specific steam engine – the Lord Jericho – at the Great Dorset Steam Fair. This was a new piece of information for me, but, although brought initial surprise, did not change any thoughts.

Si la part objectiva i la part subjectiva estan alineades, per bé o per mal, tot flueix i la ressenya pot traspuar entusiasme per la lectura realitzada o, de vegades, tot el contrari.Five months before he died, Terry Pratchett wrote five letters, sealed them in envelopes and locked them in the safe in his office to be opened after his death. And Wilkins clearly loved him, having been not just an employee but a friend and eventually, with the “embuggerance”, also often a caretaker. At one in Liverpool, “the available food included what was widely agreed to have been one of the last servings of that dying culinary phenomenon, the Great British Curry, complete with obligatory sultanas, and there was something jelly-based for pudding. Always one with an inquisitive mind and easily kindled curiosity, Terry insisted on forging his own sword after being knighted for services to literature.

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 the time of his death in 2015, our favourite author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet – his own.

I've read my way through his works and own most of them, so it should come as no surprise that he's one of my favourite authors.

Yet Terry was doing exactly the opposite, reacting to the news of his imminent demise with bravery, with unsparing thought, with a determination to confront his condition head on in public, with a bold mission to force the topic of assisted dying into the national conversation, and most of all (being Terry) with work – three television documentaries and seven more bestsellers. Aquest és el meu cas amb Terry Pratchett: Una vida amb notes a peu de pàgina: és un llibre important, commovedor, informatiu, amb un to distès que agradarà als aficionats a Terry Pratchett i, tanmateix, per una barreja d’expectatives (sempre injustes, ja ho he dit) i una falta de connexió personal amb la veu d’autor de Rob Wilkins, m’ha resultat frustrant. I, d’alguna manera, les seves novel·les ens ensenyen que l’única resposta a la imperfecció és la compassió entre iguals. This book is primarily about his creative work and extensive hobbies (gardening, beekeeping, raising goats and ducks, astronomy, silver-casting, brewing mead, building home electronics, playing computer games, forging his own sword) but skates lightly over his interpersonal relationships outside of professional collaborations. 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.It also received special binding and the following additions: a postcard with a TP doodle and one of the most famous quote from the Discworld series, a doodle by Rob Wilkins, TP's gilded sigil (the honeybee) and more.

The man was a perfectionist and reading all this from Rob's perspective made the book even more special. 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.

And you were trying to hold it all together, but this grey sand was slipping through your fingers, and you couldn’t. It's an intimate, engaging and revealing portrait of one of the UK’s most loved and most missed authors, that only Rob Wilkins could have written. The author Rob Wilkins worked very closely with Pratchett for many years and it was wonderful reading his views and insights, and this, combined with quotes and notes from Terry himself in years past, really help deliver a personal experience. It also chronicles Terry’s later years, his championing of environmental and humanitarian causes, and how he met and coped with the challenges that ‘The Embuggerance’ of Alzheimer’s brought with it.