SFX Magazine-2013 Future Publishing Portrait of English fantasy author Sir Terry Pratchett, photographed to promote the 40th novel in his Discworld series, Raising Steam, on September 18, 2013.
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The Shepherd’s Crown is the 41st book in Pratchett’s Discworld series and a number of bookstores are opening at midnight for customers keen to snap up the first copies.
The BBC’s Will Gompertz reports.
She wrote: “This isn’t just a great Discworld book, it’s extraordinary; a proper send-off for Pratchett and this mammoth series”.
Kat Brown in the Telegraph gave the novel five stars, saying “Pratchett gets his house in order beautifully”.
“It is entirely Pratchettian to give the reader an opportunity to mourn fiction and reality at the same time…” PA Sir Terry Pratchett’s ultimate novel to be let go Different stores are planning to open earlier on Thurs.
“The Shepherd’s Crown” book was completed last summer, before he succumbed to the final stages of his disease.
“His loss is a persisting embuggerance”, she said, using a word he coined to describe his Alzheimer’s.
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Fans will be waiting patiently to get their hands on the new book, as some bookshop prepare themselves for midnight openings in London, Newcastle and Oxford.
