In ancient times cats were worshipped as gods; they have not forgotten this. Terry Pratchett As readers of The Unadulterated Cat and The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents may have guessed, Terry, like Death, was very much a cat lover. From Maurice, the fast talking, quick thinking con-cat, to Mr Tiddles the geriatric post office moggy, cat owners…
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It is with immeasurable sadness that we announce that author Sir Terry Pratchett has died at the age of 66. Larry Finlay, MD at Transworld Publishers: “I was deeply saddened to learn that Sir Terry Pratchett has died. The world has lost one of its brightest, sharpest minds. In over 70 books, Terry enriched the…
Read moreA collection of shorter fiction spanning the whole of Terry’s writing career from schooldays to Discworld and the present day.
Read moreA storm. Rain-lashed city streets. A flash of lightning. A scruffy lad sees a girl leap desperately from a horse-drawn carriage, in a vain attempt to escape her captors. Can the lad stand by and let her be caught again? Of course not, because he’s . . . Dodger!
Read moreSet in the Unseen University of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld, “The Duel” is a new animated short film being produced by the Animation Hub, a collaboration between staff and students of the Irish School of Animation (ISA) at Ballyfermot College of Further Education (BCFE), staff and students of Trinity College Dublin’s Creative Arts, Technology and Culture (CATC) initiative…
Read moreThe possibilities are endless (just be careful what you wish for…) 1916: the Western Front, France. Private Percy Blakeney wakes up. He is lying on fresh spring grass. He can hear birdsong, and the wind in the leaves in the trees. Where has the mud, blood and blasted landscape of No Man’s Land gone? 2015:…
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