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Marc Burrows is a music critic, author and occasional comedian. His biography The Magic of Terry Pratchett won the 2021 Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction, and he writes regularly for The Guardian, Observer, Quietus and Hey U Guys about music, film and pop culture. He plays bass in the cult Victorian punk band The Men That Will Not Be Blamed For Nothing, and lives in North London with his wife, the poet and author Nicoletta Wylde and a small black cat called Princess. He also has two tropical fish, who he suspects might be psychopaths.

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Terry Pratchett sold over 100 million books worldwide, was translated into forty languages, and became one of the most widely loved writers of the twentieth century. His work, including the Discworld series, is often praised for its wit and invention, but less often examined for what it really is: one of the most sustained and coherent philosophical projects in modern popular fiction. From the author of The Magic of Terry Pratchett, the Locus Award-winning first biography of Sir Terry, The Terry Pratchett Reader's Guide takes Pratchett seriously as a literary figure without taking the fun out of him. This second volume covers The Truth (2000) through to Pratchett's final novel, The Shepherd's Crown. A reader's guide written for readers, not academics, complete with jokes and footnotes of its own, each chapter explores a book's themes, cultural context, and place in Pratchett's development, tracing the connections between the man, the work, and the world around him. Whether you've read every Discworld novel multiple times or are wondering where to begin, the Readers Guide is a new way to understand what Pratchett achieved: a serious meditation on justice, belief, and what it means to be human -- with terrible puns, endless cups of tea, and the occasional joke about bums.