About the Author

SIR TERRY PRATCHETT is one of the most popular authors writing today. He lives behind a keyboard in Wiltshire and says he 'doesn't want to get a life, because it feels as though he's trying to lead three already'. He was appointed OBE in 1998. His first Discworld novel for children, "The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents, " was awarded the 2001 Carnegie Medal. "Hogfather "is the twentieth novel in his phenomenally successful Discworld series.

Reviews

- "Has the energy of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy "and the inventiveness of "Alice in Wonderland"... It has also an intelligent wit and a truly original grim and comic grasp of the nature of things." --"The Sunday Times"

- "I'm addicted to Terry Pratchett." --A.S. Byatt

"[Combines] the energy of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland...It has also an intelligent wit and a truly original grim and comic grasp of the nature of things"
-"Sunday Times"

"I'm addicted to Terry Pratchett." -A.S. Byatt, "Sunday Times"

"Pratchett's writing is a constant delight. No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect or offers sharper insights into the absurdities of human endeavour." -"Daily Mail"