Final Discworld novel and Stieg Larsson sequel poised for release

The Shepherd’s Crown by Terry Pratchett and The Girl in the Spider’s Web, continuing Stieg Larsson’s crime series, are both due out on Thursday Two very different heroines are poised to return to the nation’s bookshelves: Tiffany Aching, teenage witch and protagonist of the late Terry Pratchett’s final novel, and Lisbeth Salander, the girl with the dragon tattoo dreamed up by the late Stieg Larsson.Both Pratchett’s The Shepherd’s Crown and David Lagercrantz’s continuation of Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, The Girl in the Spider’s Web, are published on 27 August, and booksellers are bracing themselves for the influx of fans desperate to get their hands on the heavily embargoed titles. A midnight opening at Waterstones in Piccadilly in London will mark the release of The Shepherd’s Crown, with events planned up and down the UK. Pratchett, who died in March after being diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in 2007, completed the novel last summer. The 41st title in his bestselling Discworld series, it will be the fifth to feature Tiffany. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'

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