Terry Pratchett Read online

  Craig Cabell

  London, June 2011

  Further Reading

  The following books are considered some of the greatest fantasy novels published. They do not include novels from either the science fiction or horror genres. It is not an exhaustive list but these books certainly allowed me to form an explanation of what the fantasy genre meant to me.

  The works of Terry Pratchett, most notably: The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery, Pyramids, Eric, Reaper Man, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Guards! Guards!, Small Gods, Johnny and the Dead, Johnny and the Bomb, Going Postal, Making Money, Nation, I Shall Wear Midnight.

  The fairy books of Andrew Lang: Blue Fairy Book (1889), Red Fairy Book (1890), Green Fairy Book (1892), Yellow Fairy Book (1894), Pink Fairy Book (1897), Grey Fairy Book (1900), Violet Fairy Book (1901), Crimson Fairy Book (1903), Brown Fairy Book (1904), Orange Fairy Book (1906), Olive Fairy Book (1907), Lilac Fairy Book (1910).

  A Midsummer Night’s Dream, William Shakespeare

  A Christmas Carol, The Chimes, A Child’s Dream of a Star, Charles Dickens

  Gulliver’s Travels, Jonathan Swift

  The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

  The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion, The Children of Hurin, JRR Tolkien

  The Chronicles of Narnia, CS Lewis

  The works of Jasper Fforde

  Watership Down, Richard Adams

  The Worst Witch series, Jill Murphy

  The Harry Potter series, JK Rowling

  The Eragon quartet, Christopher Paolini

  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

  Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

  Inkheart, Cornelia Funke

  The Neverending Story, Michael Ende

  Peter Pan, JM Barrie

  The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde

  His Dark Materials trilogy, The Scarecrow and his Servant, Philip Pullman

  The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L Frank Baum

  The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Robert Browning

  Weaveworld, The Thief of Always, Clive Barker

  Coraline, Death: The High Cost of Living, the Sandman series, Neil Gaiman

  Glory Road, Robert A Heinlein

  Solomon Kane, the Conan novels, Robert E Howard

  The Lost World, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

  The Land That Time Forgot, Edgar Rice Burroughs

  King Kong, Edgar Wallace and Merian C Cooper [Delos W Lovelace]

  Complete works, the Brothers Grimm

  Brer Rabbit, Uncle Remus

  Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling

  Duncton Wood, Duncton Quest, Duncton Found, Duncton Tales,

  Duncton Rising, Duncton Stone, William Horwood

  Sir Terry Pratchett at home in 2010, proudly holding a sword he forged from scratch.

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  Andrew Falvey, Brian Blessed, George Baker and other member of the cast of the 1995 children’s TV series Johnny and the Dead, based on Pratchett’s novel.

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  Terry Pratchett at the Cheltenham Literature Festival in 1996.

  Signing copies of Carpe Jugulum at a party in 1999 celebrating the opening of the flagship branch of Waterstone’s in Piccadilly, London.

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  Pratchett at home with his daughter Rhianna in 1998.

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  At a Going Postal signing in Cardiff in May 2005.

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  Pictured with David Jason in November 2006 at the premiere of the TV adaptation of Hogfather.

  On set during production of The Colour of Magic in 2007.

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  At home near Salisbury in Wiltshire.

  With fans at the Somerset town of Wincanton in 2009 for the unveiling of a series of road names inspired by the Discworld series.

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  Sir Terry Pratchett receiving his knighthood in 2009.

  Author Neil Gaiman, who has worked extensively with Pratchett, pictured at the Edinburgh Book Festival in 2011.

  Photographed at the 2011 Chelsea Flower Show in London.

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  About the Author

  Craig Cabell is the author of 16 books. He has been a freelance writer and reporter for over 20 years, working most notably for the Independent. For five years he was a rock journalist and then an in-house reporter for Focus, the House Journal of the Ministry of Defence, where he wrote many articles and news features. He has written both book and wine reviews for several different magazines and has travelled the world for government services. He was part of the rebuilding of Kuwait after the first Gulf War but more recently has helped UK small businesses succeed in the United States of America. He is the author of the acclaimed Operation Big Ben – The anti-V2 Spitfire Missions, 1944–45 with Graham A Thomas, which was made into a CGI film and spawned limited edition models of the clipped-winged Mark XVI Spitfires used in the operation. His book VE Day – A Day to Remember with Allan Richards also received much praise and was part of the 60th anniversary of VE Day gala performance in London’s Trafalgar Square, where Richard E Grant acted reminiscences from veterans detailed in the book. Cabell lives in London with his wife, three children, and lots of Terry Pratchett books, and wishes that one day he has enough time on his hands to get bored.

  Books by Craig Cabell

  Frederick Forsyth – A Matter of Protocol, the Authorised Biography

  The Kray Brothers – The Image Shattered

  James Herbert – Devil in the Dark, the Authorised True Story

  Operation Big Ben – The anti-V2 Spitfire Missions 1944–45

  (with Graham A Thomas)

  VE Day – A Day to Remember (with Allan Richards)

  Snipers (with Richard Brown)

  Dennis Wheatley – Churchill’s Storyteller

  Getting Away With Murder (with Lenny Hamilton)

  Witchfinder General – the Biography of Matthew Hopkins

  Ian Fleming’s Secret War – Author of James Bond

  The History of 30 Assault Unit – Ian Fleming’s Red Indians

  Captain Kidd – The Hunt for the Truth (with Graham A

  Thomas & Allan Richards)

  The Hunt for Blackbeard (with Graham A Thomas & Allan

  Richards)

  Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus

  The Doctors Who’s Who

  Terry Pratchett – The Spirit of Fantasy

  CHAP BOOKS

  Dennis Wheatley and the Occult

  Black Sniper (fiction)

  I was Alive Then – The Spike Milligan Interviews

  The Grapes of MoD – Ten years of wine consumption

  30 Assault Unit User Manual

  Why Did I Invite Them Round to Tea (fiction)

  Tales of Verona

  The Curse of the Baskervilles

  William – The Story of a Royal Marine

  Robert A Heinlein – The Complete UK Bibliography

  and Collector’s Guide

  Stephen King – The Complete UK Bibliography

  and Collector’s Guide

  Ian Rankin Illustrated UK Bibliography and Collector’s Guide

  A Christmas Vampire (fiction)

  The Arms Dealers Arms

  Stories with Wine

  SPECIAL INTRODUCTIONS

  Furies Over Korea – The story of the men of the Fleet Air Arm,

  RAF and Commonwealth who defended South Korea, 1950–1953

  by Graham A Thomas

  Firestorm, Typhoons Over Caen, 1944 by Graham A Thomas

  Terror from the Sky – The Battle Against the Flying Bomb by

  Graham A Thomas

  The Dan Brown Enigma – The Biography of the world’s greatest

  thriller writer by Graham A Thomas

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