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[Closed] Added Books/Editions > Please add the new edition of Terry Pratchett's Shaking Hands With Death

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Christos | 5 comments * Title: Shaking Hands With Death
* Author: Terry Pratchett
* ISBN: 9781529971323
* Publisher: Doubleday
* Publication Date Year: 2025
* Publication Date Month: 10
* Publication Date Day: 02
* Page count: 80
* Format: Hardcover
* Description: A beautiful clothbound pocket edition of Sir Terry Pratchett’s essay on why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for.

When Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in his fifties he was angry - not with death but with the disease that would take him there, and with the suffering disease can cause when we are not allowed to put an end to it. In this essay, broadcast to millions as the BBC Richard Dimbleby Lecture, he argues for our right to choose – our right to a good life, and a good death too.

With a new Afterword by Peter Serafinowicz and an updated Introduction by Rob Wilkins

'Eloquent and essential' Guardian

'A poignant, thought-provoking, sometimes funny, always brilliant read' 5-star reader review

‘Most men don’t fear death. They fear those things – the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – which precede, by microseconds if you’re lucky, and many years if you’re not, the moment of death.’

* Language: English
* Link: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/43216...


message 2: by Isalyne (new)

Isalyne | 1827 comments This book is already on GR Shaking Hands With Death


message 3: by Christos (new) - added it

Christos | 5 comments Thanks for pointing that out, but the book you mentioned was added to Goodreads as a completely new entry, not as a new edition. I’ve shared the link above to the existing book, which already has plenty of ratings and reviews.


message 4: by Isalyne (new)

Isalyne | 1827 comments You will need to open a topic in the "Book and Author Issues" and ask them to combine those editions.


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Bruno Rodrigues | 15139 comments Closing


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