![]() ![]() He's managed to avoid all interesting jobs authors take in order to look good in this sort of biography. * For those who really need to know, Terry Pratchett was born in Buckinghamshire in 1948. He grows carnivorous plants as a hobby they are a lot less interesting than people believe. The last five were about the Discworld, and actually quite a lot of people liked them. People never read these biographies anyway, do they? They want to get on with the book, not wade through masses of prose designed to suggest that the author is really a very interesting person so look, okay, he wrote these other books, all right, they were The Carpet People (for kids), The Dark Side of the Sun, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, Mort, Sourcery and Wyrd Sisters. Beyond that he positively refuses to be drawn. ![]() He lives in Somerset with his wife and daughter, and long ago chose journalism as a career because it was indoor work with no heavy lifting. 1990, The Colour of Magic, Corgi: Terry Pratchett is, on average, a sort of youngish middle-aged.Over the years several versions of the cover text which describes the author were printed. ![]()
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