The Write Fantastic - Terry Pratchett
At the end of last week I had decided to follow up two recent posts about the books I remember reading as a child and the books I studied at school , with a third post looking at some of the books I chose to read as a young adult and how that shaped my reading from then on. Almost certainly that post, had I written it, would have featured the books of Terry Pratchett quite heavily, because there was no doubt that at the age of 15 Terry was my favourite author. More so than even Tolkien , Douglas Adams , Raymond E Feist , Grant Naylor , Michael Crichton and whoever else I was reading at the time. But as I was clambering into bed that night thinking about what I would write in the morning, I quickly scanned the news on my phone and my heart sank. Although I knew Sir Terry had been seriously ill with a form of early onset Alzheimer's for some time, it came as quite a shock to read about his passing on the BBC. The following day I was pretty me...