Tag: Johnny Maxwell

Johnny and the Bomb

by Derelict Space Sheep on December 22, 2021 in 42 Word Retrospectives • 0 Comments

Johnny and the Bomb

by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday, 1996); audiobook read by Richard Mitchley (BBC Audiobooks, 1997)

Pratchett gifts middle-grade readers the perfect introduction to time travel, albeit that his mid-1990s ‘now’ is itself receding into history, in rapid pursuit of the Second World War ‘then’. Thought-provoking and wryly funny, with memorable characters and a rich vein of dialogue.

Johnny and the Dead

by Derelict Space Sheep on March 8, 2021 in 42 Word Retrospectives • 0 Comments

Johnny and the Dead

by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday, 1993); audiobook read by Richard Mitchley (Chivers, 2001)

Inspired by the real-life selling off of cemeteries in Westminister, Pratchett brings back middle-grade protagonist Johnny Maxwell (Only You Can Save Mankind) in this droll commentary on modern society (as it was in 1993) and earnest entreaty that history’s value be recognised.