I Shall Wear Midnight - Terry Pratchett returns to the Discworld with Tiffany Aching

With three Discworld novels starring the teen witch Tiffany Aching under his belt already, and a new one, I Shall Wear Midnight, on the way, Terry Pratchett has clearly fount a character that he enjoys writing about. With a hardback release date of 2nd September 2010, the new book will unleash Pratchett's brilliantly wild and witty imagination on the comedic fantasy book lovers' literary world.

In I Shall Wear midnight, Tiffany faces a ghostly ancient evil that has stirred up old suspicion about witches, making Tiifany's life as a teen witch even tougher than it previously was. However, whatever it is, it's also hunting Tiffany too, so she's going to need the help of the Nac mac Feegle, her tiny blue skinned clan of psuedo-Scottish mentalists, if she's going to get through the onslaught.

Whether you're a fan of Terry Pratchett's work or not, you can't help but admire the sheer scale of his achievements. The sprawling range of characters that he's created, and the near 40 Discworld novels that he has written are immense; his work has even been turned into a number of theatre productions (e.g. Nation). Although, his achievements are all the more impressive, with the fact that in 2007 he announced that he was suffering from early onset Alzheimer's decease.

I Shall Wear Midnight, is bound to be wonderfully dark and imaginative, with crazy plot twists and mad mad characters. Hopefully, it will be as genius-filled as a lot of his previous work. Given a choice between Twilight or one of the Tiffany Aching novels to read, I know which way my disc-like coin would fall.