Author(s): Rob Wilkins

Biography & Memoir

An insightful and moving biography detailing the extraordinary life of award-winning and bestselling author Terry Pratchett, written by Rob Wilkins, his friend, former assistant, and now head of the author's literary estate. At the time of his death in 2015, award-winning and bestselling author Sir Terry Pratchett was working on his finest story yet - his own. The story of a boy who aged six was told by his head teacher that he would never amount to anything and spent the rest of his life proving him wrong. Who walked out on his A levels to become a journalist, encountering some dead bodies and the idea for his first novel before he reached twenty. Who celebrated his knighthood for services to literature by forging himself a sword.Tragically, Terry ran out of time to complete the memoir he desperately wanted to write. But now, in the only authorized biography, his literary assistant and friend Rob Wilkins picks up where Terry left off, and with the help of friends, family and Pratchett's own unpublished words, tells the full story of an extraordinary life.A deeply moving and personal portrait of the extraordinary life of Sir Terry Pratchett, written with unparalleled insight and filled with funny anecdotes, this is the only official biography of one of our finest authors.