num_pages: 320
description: In the four decades since his first book appeared in print Terry Pratchett has become one of the world's best-selling and best-loved authors. Here for the first time are his short stories and other short form fiction collected into one volume. 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 phenomenally successful 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 Christmasall of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour.With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author himself this is a book to treasure.
language: English
title: A Blink of the Screen: Collected Shorter Fiction
publisher: Doubleday UK