Name: The Shepherd's Crown
ISBN: 9780552574488

The Shepherd's Crown

A shivering of worlds. Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength. This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad. As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land. There will be a reckoning...

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merruaNov 2015

The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett. His last work. Phoebe and Her Unicorn by Dana Simpson (I'd recommend this to families with young children) CSS Secrets: Better Solutions to Everyday Web Design Problems by Lea Verou. I'm not really a front in person so this was an interesting look into CSS3 Penetration Testing: A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking Georgia Weidman I'm starting next on Rework, as I've heard a lot about it.

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simonwMay 2026

Like many Pratchett fans I have not read the last published Discworld book, The Shepherd's Crown, because then I will have read them all.

The author of this piece hasn't read the Witches books! I'm jealous, they still have so much great Pratchett to get through.

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redwall_hpMay 2026

Since some people seem to have missed it: the final Discworld book, and Pratchett's deliberate "signing off," is the last Tiffany Aching book (The Shepherd's Crown), not Raising Steam.

I can't really say much about the central theme without giving away a disc-shaking change to the world, because it's about that event and the next generation (Tiffany) carrying on. It's a very sad story, but also meant to be encouraging, and clearly intended to be his last book.

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