#onthisday Two books. Same date. Same unmistakable Terry. On 25 September 1989, tiny nomes first discovered the Store wasn’t the whole world. Truckers, book one of the Bromeliad trilogy. tinyurl.com/truckers-by-Terr… 25 September 2014, in A Slip of the Keyboard, Terry collected the pieces where he spoke in his own words, including the ones about living with Alzheimer’s. 📚 tinyurl.com/slip-of-the-keyb… #TerryPratchett #Truckers #SirTerryPratchett #Discworld #DiscworldOfficial #DiscworldMerchandise #WorldAlzheimersDay

#internationalastronomyday Rincewind sighed. ‘You're finding this exciting, aren't you?’ he said. ‘You actually are?’ ‘It will certainly be a challenge to go where no one has gone before,’ said Carrot. ‘Wrong! We're going where no one has come back from before.’ Rincewind hesitated. ‘Well, except me. But I didn't go that far, and I . . . sort of dropped on to the Disc again." — #TerryPratchett, The Last Hero 📚 tinyurl.com/the-last-hero-pa… #discworld #discworldofficial #sirterrypratchett #FantasyLiterature #Bookstagram

Today is #WorldAlzheimersDay, a day that has always mattered on our Discworld.com calendar. In a 2013 interview for the up-and-coming release of Raising Steam, Terry spoke with typical honesty and warmth, about living with the disease. “You know I’ve got PCA*? The other day I met up with a lot of other people with it. They were from all over the world. And it was great fun... I’m not normally the sort of person who goes to that sort of thing. But I found you could say, ‘Don’t you like it when…’ and they’d say, ‘Oh yes’. You understand each other’s experiences.” — Terry Pratchett, The Telegraph PCA* - Posterior Cortical Atrophy, a rare form of Alzheimer’s disease. 📚 tinyurl.com/shaking-hands-wi… 📚 tinyurl.com/a-slip-of-the-ke… #DementiaDiagnosisMatters #PCA #AlzheimersAwareness #Discworld #DiscworldOfficial #TerryPratchett #SirTerryPratchett

NEW from the Watch: a sand waxed-canvas backpack and a pine-green mini messenger, both wearing the City Watch crest. The Assassins’ range comes with a desk full of things we are not recommending. Ours is the safer collection of bits and bobs; notebook, badges and perhaps something to keep the rain off. Also in the range: vintage rucksack and despatch bag. City Watch or Guild of Assassins. Choose your side. 👜 tinyurl.com/discworld-bags Fabricati Diem, Pvnc. #Discworld #CityWatch #TerryPratchett #DiscworldMerch #DiscworldOfficial

Taking a step back in time to 1986, The Colour of Magic was released, the first Discworld video game. Available on : ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC, and Commodore 64 Does anyone still own this game and/or any of the consoles? Not sure about the game but we do have all three consoles here at Discworld HQ…. #Discworld #computergames #NationalVideoGamesDay #ProgrammersDay #TerryPratchett

✨ New arrivals ✨ Not one, but two specially commissioned pin badges from this year’s Discworld Convention. Held last month at the Leonardo Hotel, Hinckley Island, celebrating 30 years of DWCon. Sparkly Terry and the official 30th Anniversary pin. Limited numbers. Exclusive to Discworld.com. Sparkly Terry: tinyurl.com/sparkly-terry 30th Anniversary pin: tinyurl.com/30th-Anniversary… #TerryPratchett #SirTerryPratchett #FavouriteAuthor #DWCon #DWCon2026 #DiscworldConvention #PinBadge #Discworld #DiscworldOfficial

#NationalQuietDay 🤫 “She collected silence like other people collected strings. But she had a way of saying nothing that said it all.” ― #TerryPratchett, A Hat Full of Sky 📚 tinyurl.com/a-hat-full-of-sk… #Discworld #DiscworldOfficial #TerryPratchettQuote #SirTerryPratchett

📚 “She got on with her education. In her opinion, school kept on trying to interfere with it.” — Soul Music- ✨ 20% off selected back to school essentials Notebooks • Stationery • Lanyards • Bags, Totes & Shoppers • Mouse & Desk Mats 📅 26–31 August only mailchi.mp/discworld.com/bac… #Discworld #DiscworldOfficial #TerryPratchett #SirTerryPratchett #FavouriteAuthor #DiscworldMerchandise

Happy #InternationalOrangutanDay! It always brings to mind our favourite orangutan... “One such accident had turned the librarian into an ape, since when he had resisted all attempts to turn him back, explaining in sign language that life as an orangutan was considerably better than life as a human being, because all the big philosophical questions resolved themselves into wondering where the next banana was coming from. Anyway, long arms and prehensile feet were ideal for dealing with high shelves.” — Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites Celebrate with three of our Librarian favourites: 🎈 tinyurl.com/librarian-with-b… 🖱 tinyurl.com/librarian-in-pen… ☕ tinyurl.com/ook-librarian-mu… Many more Librarian products available course. Too many to mention 😀. #Discworld #DiscworldOfficial #TerryPratchett #SirTerryPratchett #FavouriteAuthor

Terry Pratchett: A Life With Footnotes The Official Biography Proving very popular, our new slipcase comes signed by Rob Wilkins. Limited number, you can order online from our new look website. 😍 🔗 tinyurl.com/limited-number-s… Rob Wilkins’ definitive biography of Terry Pratchett draws on unpublished notes, family recollections, and friends’ testimonies to reveal the wit, resilience and imagination behind Discworld. “Of all the dead authors in the world, Terry Pratchett is the most alive.” — John Lloyd #TerryPratchett #Discworld #SirTerryPratchett #DiscworldOfficial #FavouriteAuthor

NEW ARRIVAL Our glorious monotone DESK MAT, featuring The Librarian. Interestingly, this was the first ever pencil print we produced way back in 1994. 80 x 30cm of amazing detail, you'll forget what you were doing. Now... Where was I? Oh yes... 🛒tinyurl.com/librarian-desk-m… "So it was reasonable to assume that the small purple newts had been part of the floor and the pineapple custard may once have been some books. And several of the wizards later swore that the small sad orangutang sitting in the middle of it all looked very much like the head librarian." Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic #terrypratchett #sirterrypratchett #favouriteauthor #discworldofficial #discworldofficialmerchandise #terrypratchettquote

📯 As the FIFA World Cup 2026™ kicks off this week, we look back at Terry’s homage to the game… ⚽ Unseen Academicals Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match — without using magic — so they’re in the mood for trying everything else. “Because the thing about football — the important thing about football — is that it is not just ab out football. Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!” Unseen Academicals, Terry Pratchett 📚tinyurl.com/unseen-academica… Featured: Discworld Convention World Cup Collectable Pin + Alchemist’s Guild + Fool’s Guild + City Watch crest. Rare. Limited numbers available. 📍 tinyurl.com/collectable-disc… Which team are you supporting? #TerryPratchett #Discworld #DiscworldOfficial #WorldCup2026

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Take a sneak peek at the new 2027 Discworld Calendar. Paul Kidby’s stunning artwork meets meticulously researched dates in this must-have Collector’s Edition. The Turtle Moves… and so does your year planner! PRE-ORDER NOW! AVAILABLE 1st JULY 👀 tinyurl.com/2027-discworld-c… “Wen considered the nature of time and understood that the universe is, instant by instant, recreated anew. Therefore, he understood, there is no past. The past is a way of expressing the fact that the universe is, at every moment, created.” Thief of Time, Terry Pratchett #terrypratchett #discworld #discworldofficial

#nationalnumeracyday It was amazing, he thought, how people would argue against figures on no better basis than 'they must be wrong'. 'I'm sure the Bursar would not agree with those figures,' said the Senior Wrangler sourly. 'That is so,' said Ponder, 'but I'm afraid that is because he regards the decimal point as a nuisance'. Unseen Academicals 📚 tinyurl.com/unseen-academica… #nationalnumeracy #discworld #terrypratchett #discworldofficial #independentbookstore

Small Gods was published on this day, 1992. The 13th Discworld novel, it tells the origin of the god Om, and his relations with his prophet, the reformer Brutha. ‘I said, that’s blasphemy!’ ‘Blasphemy? How can I blaspheme? I’m a god!’ New Letterbox Edition now available! 📚 tinyurl.com/small-gods-by-te… #discworld #discworldofficial #terrypratchett #sirterrypratchett #favouriteauthor #independentbookstore

#WorldBeeDay 🐝 ‘Sometimes human beings are very much like bees. Bees are fiercely protective of their hive, provided you are outside it. Once you're in, the workers sort of assume that it must have been cleared by management and take no notice...’ — Good Omens Image: The Observer #TerryPratchett #Discworld #DiscworldOfficial

#NationalLostSockMemorialDay, we remember the brave single socks claimed by the Eater of Socks, that small, elephant-like laundry monster from the Unseen University, born of belief in Hogfather. (And let’s not forget its pencil-munching cousin, the Stealer of Pencils.) May your drawers stay full and your pairs eternal. Perhaps some replacements? 🧦 tinyurl.com/discworld-socks “The Eater of Socks looked up at the wizards, cautiously. Then its jaws started to work again. …grnf, grnf… ‘Here, that’s one of mine!’ said the Chair of Indefinite Studies, making a grab. The Eater of Socks backed away hurriedly. … ‘Funny lookin’ little thing, ain’t it?’ said Ridcully…” — Terry Pratchett, Hogfather 📚 tinyurl.com/hogfather-discwo… #Discworld #TerryPratchett #SirTerryPratchett #DiscworldOfficial