Tuesday, June 09, 2015

Cover designs for Terry Pratchett's final Discworld novel The Shepherd's Crown revealed

Cover artwork is unveiled on author’s Twitter feed, showing Tiffany Aching, Nac Mac Feegles – and bees

The UK and US cover designs for Terry Pratchett’s final Discworld novel, The Shepherd’s Crown.
Visual clues … the UK and US cover designs for Terry Pratchett’s final Discworld novel, The Shepherd’s Crown.
The British and US covers of the final Discworld novel from the late Sir Terry Pratchett have been revealed, showing the teenage witch Tiffany Aching surrounded by fairy clan the Nac Mac Feegles – and a motif of bees.

The Shepherd’s Crown was completed by Pratchett in the summer of 2014, and will be published by Penguin Random House on 27 August. It is published in the US on 1 September.
The book is the final Discworld novel from the author who died in March, and the fifth to feature Tiffany, after The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky, Wintersmith and I Shall Wear Midnight.

The British and US jackets were unveiled on Pratchett’s Twitter feed, which had last been used to break the news of his death in March.A man is not dead while his name is still spoken. Speak his name,” tweeted @terryandrob from the account in the name of Pratchett and his assistant, Rob Wilkins.

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