Through this tale of four-inch tall nomes, who move too fast for the human eye and take things very literally, Pratchett muses upon all the fairy-tales and legends which star these wee folk and makes us wonder if indeed they’re based on truth.
The director of animated blockbuster Shrek will take the film's revolutionary computer techniques even further when he adapts author Terry Pratchett's Bromeliad Trilogy for the big screen.
Lilac pins are being made and sold with all profit being split between British and American Alzheimer's research charities. (In the book Night Watch the survivors of the 25th May revolution wear them each year to commemorate and remember)
Terry Pratchett has said that he has to buy the drug Aricept because he is deemed "too young" by the tossers at the NHS. He also said that it's "a situation I'm okay with in a want-to-kick-a-politician-in-the-teeth-kind-of-way".