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...erent from straight readings of the novels, e.g. audio books, as they have a full cast to play the characters and only dialogue is read. The plays have ...Thomas E. Fuller; in exchange for the rights to adapt this book ARTC made a donation to [[Orangutan Foundation|Orangutan Foundation International]]. ...

...nced thieves are wise not to try and push their luck) is also described as a riot of rococo carving by Gibbons. ...ons, described as "not a happy man", committed quite a messy suicide using a spokeshave. ...

|illustrator=[[Paul Kidby]] '''Terry Pratchett: HisWorld A Brief Guide to Discworld''' also called '''The Little Blue Book''', was pri ...

...er-sized Jolson, died today (28 Oct). I believe I have the ingredients for a batch of jambalaya...--[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] ([[User talk:Old Di ...

...heir respective content. So I created some templates. A template is just a way of handling repeated text. ** <nowiki>{{ls|/about-terry/biography.html|A biography of Terry Pratchett by Colin Smythe}}</nowiki> ...

...he First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women}}'', a treatise against female rulers in the 16th century. Knox had Mary Tudor, Ma ...er includes a vampire, a troll, an Igor and (according to rumour at least) a werewolf. ...

...rences when possible to include the new 2024 paperback, which has promised a new layout. ;Page 8 (all editions):This is a reworking of the Prometheus fable on Roundworld, with Fingers Mazda taking ...

we may need to move new annotations onto a new page--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 09:43, 3 October 2008 (UTC)? ...ving a problem? Firefox works fine regardless and I suspect the warning is a relic of obsolete browsers. ([[Talk:Main Page]] is 41KB.) --[[User:Old Dick ...

|cover=[[File:Thud!.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover art by Paul Kidby]] ...hed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Comman ...

...ogates [[Inigo Skimmer]], "Didn't some philosophical bastard once say that a government needed butchers as well as shepherds?" (Doubleday edition, hardb :The "philosophical bastard" was Voltaire. It was a favorite quote of Robespierre.[[User:Solicitr|Solicitr]] 22:10, 6 March 201 ...

|occupation=Butler<BR>A Member of the City Watch [[Specials]] ...imes's uncouth habits. Though Vimes remains uneasy with the idea of having a servant, he seems to have accepted the idea. ...

...released in a smaller hardback format than the previous Discworld novels, a format which was used up to and including {{HFOS}}. :Imagine a million clever rats.<br/> ...

...u thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there's a key ... ...who will heroically slay the dragon and became the city's king, to act as a puppet ruler for the Elucidated Brethren. ...

...rge, pink-faced, with a few strands of hair teased across his head; smokes a big cigar |relatives= a grandson & granddaughter<br /> ...

* [http://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/ Terry Pratchett Books] - A very active forum with members from around the world. Main page also includ * [http://www.affordable-prawns.co.uk/planet Planet afp] - A collection of afpers' weblogs. ...

|photo= Tiffany Aching.png|Tiffany Aching by Paul Kidby ...e hat) preferring blue or green. Has a silver necklace of the Horse (later a golden hare necklace). ...

...arper version, mind you. The original shows many of the usual suspects and a few newcomers lined up behind the Librarian, with ball, as for the team ico ...te? If thats the case my favourite store made a major booboo by selling me a copy this monday (I'll start my second redthrough tonight)? [[User:Iron Hip ...

...in which a mix-up at a hospital causes the Antichrist to be brought up as a perfectly normal kid with bizarre consequences as he develops his special t ...a movie of this book if those with the money and inclination to make such a thing possible were not as rare as [[Klatchian Mist]]. ...

...space for books. i.e. '''Book:The Colour of Magic''' So you can still make a page telling you that ''The Colour of Magic is octarine'' or ''Mort is the ...d just because there's a page with that title, so that doesn't really pose a problem. ...

...ot of suffering and human misery even before Guild founder Monsieur [[Jean-Paul Pune]] bought the land. Adding to the sum total of accumulated misery, the ...reaction for the audience is horror and unease. During emergencies such as a fire, the clowns continue their supposedly funny assaults on their colleagu ...

To keep a distincion of short stories from books, I have created the Short Story name This is of course a problem I have with Wikipedia in general. Most articles these days are more ...

...d ''the'' precious stone on the Disc? For instance, why didn't Brick have a couple of teeth removed to pay for his habbits? --[[User:Megahurts|Megahurt ...rse, that raises the question: if there's only one of him, why bother with a species designation! [[User:Kellyterryjones|Kellyterryjones]] 21:25, 27 Jan ...

...f the "man" in the middle is a personal insult. She is therefore evidently a Woman of Opinions. She is also house mistress of the all-female [[Black Wi ...hes, and a note excusing them from gym classes. Madame Deux-Epeés was such a one, whose Guild membership was retrospectively approved so as to avoid emb ...

Gameplay is divided into 4 Acts. There are many locations to explore and a multitude of obstacles in Rincewind's path to overcome. Conversations with ...game borrows from a number of Discworld books, but the plot is essentially a mesh of {{RM}} and {{MP}}. ...

|photo= Pond2a.jpg|240px|''© Paul Kidby'' |marital status= Never married but '''''may''''' have had a holiday romance of the shuffling and slightly embarrassed "''...errrm....'' ...

|appearance= A rat skeleton wearing a black robe, wielding a very small scythe ...watch) needs guidance to the next world. The Death of Rats was once merely a part of [[Death]] himself, but after the events of ''[[Book:Reaper Man|Reap ...

...magazine, ''Books Quarterly no. 29'' (For non-UK readers, Waterstones are a major British bookselling chain) there is an four-page feature where Terry ...otball, whose absurdities and pomposities and prima donnas really deserve a duffing-over! ...

...ll as fan groups, however since the material is copyrighted permission and a stage application are needed to be purchased beforehand. Amateur rights can [[Contributions to other works|'A word from the author about the novel']] by [[Terry Pratchett]]. ...

Well, not quite "spoof-free", when you consider Paul Kidby's rendition of Ponder Stibbons.--[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 16: This may be a storm in a teaup, but I gather our man and the delightful Joanna Katherine aren't gett ...

...y were prior to his being invited to come and live as a permanent guest in a ''house'' where his imagination ''arrests'' him to the workbench...--[[User ...t H***y P****r was released. Was Paul K. watching very carefully, or is it a great coincidence? The forehead line in the pencil-chewing picture isn't ja ...

|size= not measured but only a few miles across. ...ng from the [[Boys' Island]] at the time, leaving his boy's soul behind in a traditional rite of passage. Nation would later become inhabited again by r ...

...breaking into their house while they are away, and then redecorating it in a truly tasteless and appalling style using cheap and nasty materials. ...all the above but also a lot of teeth and a voice capable of cracking open a safe. ...

...'s next to Colon, if that is Colon (wasn't sure on that), and the one with a plastercast on his arm (i'm sure he's mentioned by name in the book). ...lag, the older jowly one in rich-looking clothes and the floppy black hat. A Patrician, possibly Winder?--[[User:AgProv|AgProv]] 22:06, 6 August 2009 (U ...

...woman on a blue field strategically covered by a bend sinister resembling a large saw blade. ...c. According to ''[[The Discworld Companion]]'', there is no such thing as a professional conjuror in Ankh-Morpork, and the Guild consists of hobbyists. ...

A certain facial similarity to Lara Croft (not Jolie) is belied by the torso. ...o a point, but the sketch does show a youngish woman dressed and styled in a severely Victorian sort of way: this implies some very rigid bustiers and c ...

...elda" with an "e" or "Esmeralda" with an "a"? I've always thought it's an "a". I haven't checked thoroughly but so far the references that I have found ::BTW: The German translations are all '''a''' but Magrats daughter is '''e'''... --[[User:Death|Death]] 09:18, 9 Janua ...

...ecognize Death. Mort's infatuation with Keli causes him to spare her life a short time later on his first solo mission. Instead of taking Keli's soul, ...story, Keli's distant ancestor had in fact been a barbarian raider who led a tribe and conquered the area now known as Sto Lat. ...

...mably all-female [[Raven House]]. An inferred detail is that she is one of a group of female teachers, only three of whom are named in the canon, who we ...n matron in her possible late fifties, dourly unattractive, with more than a passing hint in face, dress and demeanour, of the famed nineteenth-century ...

|cover=[[File:SOD4 Hardback.jpg|240px|thumb|Cover art by [[Paul Kidby]]]] A new Discworld story from Terry Pratchett. ...

Terry's doing pretty well around the palace for a raving anti-monarchist. Lord Pratchett of Ankh next? --[[User:Old Dickens|O ...the '''only''' possible next award Her Maj can possibly bestow on Terry is a dukedom... ...

...vels, with new matching covers designed by [[Leo Nickolls]], referencing [[Paul Kidby]]'s character designs, and published for the first time under the Pen ...international). Some regions (e.g. Australia) will see the new paperbacks a few months later, and separate Harper Perennial editions will be published ...

...about evolutionary relationships between species, classifying banana with a kind of fish (found in Hogfather), and octopussies with spiders, I think de ...Ponder; fellow goes by the name of ''Skazz''. It's page 237 in my book, so a little more than halfway through.... ...

|photo=LordDowney.jpg|Picture Credit: [[Paul Kidby]] ...m the insulting nickname of "Dog-botherer". Vetinari got his vengeance, in a [[Greville-Pipe|quite interesting manner]] in {{NW}}. ...

...e only other things known with any certainty about her are that she makes a remarkable [[Distressed Pudding]] and can do amazing things with cheese. ''Mrs Nobbs is a mistress of all those dishes that make you think of fog and coal smoke - li ...

...he Alchemists or any other. Perhaps fashion design is the last frontier in A-M? --[[User:Old Dickens|Old Dickens]] 00:06, 16 November 2009 (UTC) ...nconscious and the car would never be the same again. O'Grady now presents a regular Sunday afternoon music-and-talk show on BBC Radio Two: tune in and ...

...and once operated a Web store, [[Discworld.com|cmotdibbler.com]], selling a range of Discworld items. (However, cmotdibbler has not been available for ...ng our suspicions about the civil service) but he now describes himself as a <u>former</u> civil servant. He was born in Oxford and lives there still. ...

...ried but the union has been regretfully childless. Ruby also reputably has a punch that even Detritus himself fears. ...rick]], an adolescent male troll with no known parents, who has so far led a troubled life which has aroused Detritus' paternal instinct (expressed in t ...

...He is a thin figure with icicles for hair and a nose, if the drawing by [[Paul Kidby]] is anything to go by. He apparently never sleeps,as was his respons ...also draws paisley patterns. They may look like fern patterns, but there's a difference. ...

...Lane''' runs from [[Sticken Place]] to the [[Fiveways]] and can be seen as a widdershins extension of [[Chittling Street]]. Sticken Place stands at the ...of rocks and gravels. In the same way, a troll with a shovel can recognize a great big pile of doodah, but will just shrug disinterestedly as he clears ...

...of a coffin. When bored, he goes to public places such as the restroom in a hospital, and tries to infect people with various diseases (in {{TOT}}). ...appeared early in the series when the Four Horsemen were described having a card game at [[Death]]'s house (in {{TLF}}). ...