Under the auspices of its initiative on Creative Arts, Technologies and Culture, Trinity College Dublin is delighted to announce the appointment of Sir Terry Pratchett as an Adjunct Professor in the School of English and Oscar Wilde Centre. To mark Professor Sir Terry’s engagement within the College he will deliver an inaugural professorial lecture, “The Importance…
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Read moreRandom House Children’s Books and Waterstone’s are delighted to announce that Sir Terry Pratchett’s new Discworld Novel will be launched at Waterstone’s Piccadilly in London at midnight on 1st September. The event will include a talk between Sir Terry Pratchett and his friend the actor Tony Robinson, followed by Sir Terry’s only bookshop signing for…
Read moreANWHERE BUT HERE, ANYWHEN BUT NOW Anywhere but here, anywhen but now. Which means we are after stories set on Earth, although it may be an Earth that might have been, or might yet be, one that has gone down a different leg of the famous trousers of time (see the illustration in almost every…
Read moreFROM MIDNIGHT TO SKIP DIVING Folks, I Shall Wear Midnight is totally finished; we spent the better part of three days last week doing the final proof-read and let me tell you that the only way to proof read a manuscript with maximum accuracy is to listen to it read aloud. Well, it is for me at…
Read moreDEATH / DYING / ASSISTED SUICIDE / THE NEW GOING POSTAL TRAILER& THE THIEVES’ GUILD CREST Folks, Thursday. A moment of unexpected peace and quiet which allows me to get on and do the mail. It’s a little bit difficult to do even that. My mother is dead, but not yet cremated. It is an…
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