The Shepherd’s Crown

‘Terry was one of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest’

— George R. R. Martin

‘A Terry Pratchett book is a small miracle’

— Neil Gaiman

‘Discworld is one of the very most fabulous creations in all of literature’

— Patrick Ness

‘No writer in my lifetime has given me as much pleasure and happiness’

— A. S. Byatt

‘A writer of monumental talent’

— Rick Riordan

‘His fantasies sit alongside — and are the equals of — those of Rabelais, Voltaire, Swift, Kurt Vonnegut and Douglas Adams … But whereas all these are neatly arranged on the bookshelves, my Pratchetts are strewn under the beds, in the bathrooms, the glove compartments. They have shopping lists, takeaway orders and Scrabble scores scribbled on the fly leaves. They were part of life’

— Frank Cottrell Boyce