May’s Reading group: the novels of Terry Pratchett

To celebrate the life of this much-loved writer, we will be looking at the first book in the Discworld series, plus one other – the choice is yours

This month on the Reading group, we’re going to celebrate the life of Terry Pratchett the best way we can: by enjoying his novels. The only difficulty is deciding which of his books to look at. Pratchett wrote roughly two books a year for 30 years, and many of them are dearly beloved.

The obvious starting place is his first Discworld novel, The Colour of Magic. I’m going to read that over the next few days and I hope you’ll join me. It will be fascinating to discuss it here and see the foundations of what would become Terry Pratchett’s monument.

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