A Blink of the Screen - Collected Short Fiction

In the four decades since his first book appeared in print, Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press,; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas,all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour. With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt, illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.

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Clever, neatly constructed and funny...Pratchett is one of the great comic writers and storytellers of our time Guardian

Product details

• Authors: Terry Pratchett
• Publisher: Corgi
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 10.10.2013
• EAN: 9780552163330
• ISBN: 978-0-552-16333-0
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, Humorous fiction, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Adventure / action fiction