The Terry Pratchett Estate

On 27th August 2015, The Shepherd's Crown, the last book Sir Terry Pratchett completed before he died, was published. To mark the ten year anniversary, we have a message from Rob Wilkins.

A landmark essay from Sir Terry Pratchett on the right to a good life — and a good death.

First delivered as the BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture, this powerful piece is now available in a stunning clothbound edition, with a new afterword by Peter Serafinowicz. 💬⚖️

Happy Terry Pratchett Day, on what would have been his 77th birthday.

To mark the occasion, we are putting our focus on reading for all, so we invite you to pick up a book, celebrate those championing literacy and access, share the stories that impacted you most, and celebrate your local libraries, who make this accessible across the country.

Terry was a firm believer that reading should be for everyone, and we continue to champion this ethos. No matter the age, format, or genre, there's a power in words and stories to transport readers.

For those looking to bring a little bit of Discworld into your, or younger readers', lives, Gollancz have given us some free sample colouring pages from the Discworld colouring book to share and print at home: https://terrypratchett.com/free-to-download-discworld-colouring-pages/

Announcing the Discworld graphic novel universe.

We are thrilled to announce that the work of Sir Terry Pratchett is being adapted into graphic novels, to be released by Penguin Books. But what one will we start with? How about three...

A message from Rob Wilkins.

Shortly before he died, Terry Pratchett assured me that, if there is an afterlife, he would give me a ring and let me know. That was ten years ago - and still no call.

From which, incidentally, I draw no firm conclusions. What if there was an afterlife, but with no phone signal?

But of course there is one place where Terry indisputably lives on: in the pages of his books and in the minds of the millions of readers around the world who turn those pages and continue to find them funny and true. For, while his words live on, so does Terry, and that will be the case, no question, not just for this one decade so quickly gone, but for many further decades to come.

So let me join Lyn and Rhianna in raising a glass today to the magical persistence of books and to Sir Terry; gone but still so very firmly with us.

For today only (12th February), UK Audible members can get the Terry Pratchett BBC Radio Drama Collection for just £2.99.

🔊Sound on to hear Carrot arriving in Ankh-Morpork in the pouring rain and being, well, a tad underwhelmed…

READ: The final of Terry Pratchett's lost stories - Arnold, the Bominable Snowman - was discovered after the hardback publication of A Stroke of the Pen, and included in the paperback edition.

Happy publication day, Paul Kidby!

Designing Terry Pratchett's Discworld is out now.

The Discworld year for 2025 shall be known as [FX Drum Roll]: The Year of the Luminous Lemur!

The Road Not Taken...

Introducing the 13th and final chapter in Paul Kidby's Designing Terry Pratchett's Discworld, where Paul envisions covers for some of the books that Terry spoke of but, sadly, never got to write.