SIR TERRY PRATCHETT is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. His first Discworld novel for children, The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal. Hogfather is the twentieth novel in his phenomenally successful Discworld series.
[Combines] the energy of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland...It has also an intelligent wit and a truly original grim and comic grasp of the nature of things - Sunday Times I'm addicted to Terry Pratchett. -A.S. Byatt, Sunday Times Pratchett's writing is a constant delight. No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of human endeavour. - Daily Mail - Has the energy of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland ... It has also an intelligent wit and a truly original grim and comic grasp of the nature of things. -- The Sunday Times - I'm addicted to Terry Pratchett. --A.S. Byatt