A must-have collection of shorter fiction from the pen of Sir Terry Pratchett, award-winning & bestselling author of the phenomenally successful Discworld novels. 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 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 A.S. Byatt and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.
