Dodger's Guide to London

[The Mad Collector]

This has recently appeared on Amazon with a release date of 21st November 2013.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dodgers-Guide-London-Terry-Pratchett/dp/085753324X/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_14

Call me a cynic but this sounds like another rip-off production ready for Christmas that even if it carries Terry's name on the cover is highly unlikely to actually be written by him

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

I think there may be a few more like that coming out Mad or cashing in.

 

[Tonyblack]

Mad, if you go on like that you'll have to change your name to The Coming To His Senses Collector.

 

[The Mad Collector]

I don't buy all the extras Tony I was given the World of Poo by Bernard Pearson for my 50th birthday and wasn't remotely tempted by the WH Smith 'exclusive version'

This one seems to me to be really tenuous and frankly eveyone would be better off with Henry Mayhews excellent book anyway

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

This has recently appeared on Amazon with a release date of 21st November 2013.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dodgers-Guide-London-Terry-Pratchett/dp/085753324X/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_14

Call me a cynic but this sounds like another rip-off production ready for Christmas that even if it carries Terry's name on the cover is highly unlikely to actually be written by him

That reminds me of this load of crap that was in a simular vein:Terry Pratchett - The Spirit of Fantasy

 

[=Tamar]

It sounds to me like the equivalent of the Diaries. I doubt that it is as detailed as the Compleat Ankh-Morpork. On the other hand, Mayhew's work is out of copyright, and this could be a way to make some of the information in it more widely available. I will be interested in looking at it when and if I get the chance.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

£1.99 from The Works, and it's just cut and pasted from other sources and nothing new and some observations of his own, at least the Diaries were fun in parts with something new in them and they could be used as diaries.

 

[=Tamar]

£1.99 from The Works, and it's just cut and pasted from other sources and nothing new and some observations of his own, at least the Diaries were fun in parts with something new in them and they could be used as diaries.

Just a note: that links to the Spirit of Fantasy, not Dodger's Guide to London.

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

That's what I thought you were referring to, my mistook.

 

[The Mad Collector]

It sounds to me like the equivalent of the Diaries. I doubt that it is as detailed as the Compleat Ankh-Morpork. On the other hand, Mayhew's work is out of copyright, and this could be a way to make some of the information in it more widely available. I will be interested in looking at it when and if I get the chance.

Try the real thing first though. Mayhews book is easily available, inexpensive, and well worth a read

http://www.amazon.co.uk/London-Labo...-Literature/dp/1840226196/ref=tmm_pap_title_0

 

[raisindot]

This has recently appeared on Amazon with a release date of 21st November 2013.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dodgers-Guide-London-Terry-Pratchett/dp/085753324X/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_14

Call me a cynic but this sounds like another rip-off production ready for Christmas that even if it carries Terry's name on the cover is highly unlikely to actually be written by him

The key to any of these is the possessive apostrophe.

If the title says, "Terry Pratchett's" you know it's some kind of cash-in deal where others have borrowed the brand.

 

[=Tamar]

This has recently appeared on Amazon with a release date of 21st November 2013.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dodgers-Guide-London-Terry-Pratchett/dp/085753324X/ref=pd_ys_ir_all_14
Call me a cynic but this sounds like another rip-off production ready for Christmas that even if it carries Terry's name on the cover is highly unlikely to actually be written by him

The key to any of these is the possessive apostrophe.
If the title says, "Terry Pratchett's" you know it's some kind of cash-in deal where others have borrowed the brand.

The Amazon listing says Terry Pratchett (author), 144 pages, to be published by Doubleday Children's Books. Hmm. Given that Amazon has been known to advertise books that never existed, I don't think there is enough evidence to predict what, if anything, this will turn out to be.

 

[KatyScott]

It's now out.
I thought it was superb

 

[The Mad Collector]

It is good, one of the best things Bernard Pearson has written

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

WHAT!! do you mean Isobel has not been credited.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Neither of them have been credited but it reads like Bernard and I know he was working on it when The World of Poo came out