Book:Shaking Hands With Death: Difference between revisions
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
(Bit more description) |
mNo edit summary |
||
| (2 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown) | |||
| Line 1: | Line 1: | ||
{{Book Data | {{Book Data | ||
|title=Shaking Hands With Death | |title = Shaking Hands With Death | ||
|cover=[[File:SHWD Cover.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover]] | |cover = [[File:SHWD Cover.jpg|thumb|240px|Cover]] | ||
|coauthors=[[Rob Wilkins]] | |coauthors = [[Rob Wilkins]] | ||
|illustrator= | |illustrator = | ||
|date=2015 | |date = 2015 | ||
|publisher=Corgi | |publisher = Corgi | ||
|isbn= | |isbn = 0552172774 | ||
|pages=64 | |pages = 64 | ||
|rrp=£3.99 | |rrp = £3.99 | ||
|series= Peripherals | |series = Peripherals | ||
|characters= | |characters = | ||
|annotations= | |annotations = | ||
|notes= | |notes = | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''''Shaking Hands With Death''''' is a printing of the speech that [[Terry Pratchett]] wrote and gave alongside [[Tony Robinson]] for the Richard Dimbleby lecture in 2010. The lecture was first collected in print in {{SK}} in 2014. This separate edition was published after Terry’s death, and includes a new foreword telling the story of the speech by [[Rob Wilkins]]. | '''''Shaking Hands With Death''''' is a printing of the speech that [[Terry Pratchett]] wrote and gave alongside [[Tony Robinson]] for the Richard Dimbleby lecture in 2010. The lecture was first collected in print in {{SK}} in 2014. This separate edition was published after Terry’s death in 2015, and includes a new foreword telling the story of the speech by [[Rob Wilkins]]. | ||
A new hardcover edition of the book is to be published by Penguin Random House on 14 October 2025, with a new cover and updated introduction by Rob Wilkins. | |||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
| Line 20: | Line 22: | ||
* [http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/02/terry-pratchett-assisted-suicide-tribunal/ Terry Pratchett: My Case for a Euthanasia Tribunal], longer excerpt. | * [http://www.theguardian.com/society/2010/feb/02/terry-pratchett-assisted-suicide-tribunal/ Terry Pratchett: My Case for a Euthanasia Tribunal], longer excerpt. | ||
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90b1MBwnEHM| The Richard Dimbleby Lecture- Shaking Hands With Death (2010)], video of the lecture. | * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90b1MBwnEHM| The Richard Dimbleby Lecture- Shaking Hands With Death (2010)], video of the lecture. | ||
* [https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/432165/shaking-hands-with-death-by-pratchett-terry/9781529971323 Penguin UK page for the book], with details of the new 2025 edition (cover not yet available). | |||
[[Category:Reference]] | [[Category:Reference]] | ||
[[Category:Books by Terry Pratchett]] | [[Category:Books by Terry Pratchett]] | ||
Latest revision as of 13:36, 12 July 2025
| Shaking Hands With Death | |
 | |
| Co-author(s) | Rob Wilkins |
| Illustrator(s) | |
| Publisher | Corgi |
| Publication date | 2015 |
| ISBN | 0552172774 |
| Pages | 64 |
| RRP | £3.99 |
| Main characters | |
| Series | Peripherals |
| Annotations | View |
| Notes | |
| All data relates to the first UK edition. | |
Shaking Hands With Death is a printing of the speech that Terry Pratchett wrote and gave alongside Tony Robinson for the Richard Dimbleby lecture in 2010. The lecture was first collected in print in A Slip of the Keyboard in 2014. This separate edition was published after Terry’s death in 2015, and includes a new foreword telling the story of the speech by Rob Wilkins.
A new hardcover edition of the book is to be published by Penguin Random House on 14 October 2025, with a new cover and updated introduction by Rob Wilkins.
External Links
- A Tribunal of Mercy, abridged excerpt.
- Terry Pratchett: My Case for a Euthanasia Tribunal, longer excerpt.
- The Richard Dimbleby Lecture- Shaking Hands With Death (2010), video of the lecture.
- Penguin UK page for the book, with details of the new 2025 edition (cover not yet available).