SHAKING HANDS WITH DEATH

A beautiful clothbound pocket edition of Sir Terry Pratchett’s essay on why we all deserve a life worth living and a death worth dying for.

With a new Afterword by Peter Serafinowicz
and an updated Introduction by Rob Wilkins

'Eloquent and essential' Guardian

'A poignant, thought-provoking, sometimes funny, always brilliant read' 5-star reader review


‘Most men don’t fear death. They fear those things – the knife, the shipwreck, the illness, the bomb – which precede, by microseconds if you’re lucky, and many years if you’re not, the moment of death.’

When Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in his fifties he was angry - not with death but with the disease that would take him there, and with the suffering disease can cause when we are not allowed to put an end to it.