Exhibitions

A Pratchett Preview

From the Exhibition

The upper shelf of the display shows the various adaptations of the Discworld novel Wyrd Sisters, which serves as a good example of how far one title can spread its wings. The work has been adapted for the stage, as a radio drama, and an animated film, and was the basis for a musical and a Suite for Wind Band. It has also appeared in two versions as an audio book.

The lower shelf displays editions of Terry Pratchett's early novels The Dark Side of the Sun (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1976) with a cover illustration by the author and Strata (Gerrards Cross: Colin Smythe, 1981), together with his books for young readers.

Truckers, the first volume of what is known in the USA as the Bromeliad Trilogy, was a landmark in that it was the first children's book to appear in the British adult paperback fiction best-seller lists. In due course it was followed by Diggers, Wings, the revised version of The Carpet People, and all three Johnny Maxwell books, Only You Can Save Mankind, Johnny and the Dead, and Johnny and the Bomb.

Also on the lower shelf are the miniature 'Compact Discworlds' The Colour of Magic, The Light Fantastic, Equal Rites, and Mort, which contain the complete, unabridged text of the original novels.