Briggs, Stephen

Entry updated 19 January 2026. Tagged: Artist, Author, Theatre.

(1951- ) UK author, illustrator, actor and playwright, long associated with the Discworld setting created by Terry Pratchett. The extensively annotated map The Streets of Ankh-Morpork: Being a Concise and Possibly Even Accurate Mapp of the Great City of the Discworld (1993), designed in collaboration with Terry Pratchett and executed by Stephen Player, was followed by other such spoof cartographies. The Discworld Companion: The Definitive Guide to Terry Pratchett's Discworld (1994) [see Checklist for the many revised editions] with Terry Pratchett explores Discworld in some detail in encyclopedia fashion through many alphabetical entries on people, places and things, with illustrations by Briggs. He has also adapted a number of the novels for the stage, the resulting published scripts beginning with Terry Pratchett's Mort: The Play (1996). Further nonfiction spinoffs include Nanny Ogg's Cookbook (1999) with Terry Pratchett and a sequence of diaries with Discworld themes beginning with Discworld's Unseen University Diary 1998 (1997) with Terry Pratchett. Briggs has additionally recorded a number of Discworld novel audiobooks; his rendition of Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment (2003) won an Audie award. [DRL]

Stephen Briggs

born Oxford, Oxfordshire: 1951

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Discworld plays and screenplays

This list confines itself to mass-market publications; further adaptations by Stephen Briggs have appeared as Samuel French or Methuen acting editions.

Terry Pratchett's Mort: The Play (London: Corgi, 1996) adapted from the Terry Pratchett novel [play: Discworld: pb/Stephen Player]
Terry Pratchett's Wyrd Sisters: The Play (London: Corgi, 1996) adapted from the Terry Pratchett novel [play: Discworld: pb/Stephen Player]
Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!: The Play (London: Corgi, 1997) adapted from the Terry Pratchett novel [play: Discworld: pb/Stephen Player]
Terry Pratchett's Men at Arms: The Play (London: Corgi, 1997) adapted from the Terry Pratchett novel [play: Discworld: pb/Stephen Player]
The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003) adapted from the Terry Pratchett novel [Discworld: hb/]
Going Postal: Stage Adaptation (London: Bloomsbury/Methuen Drama, 2005) adapted from the Terry Pratchett novel [Discworld: pb/Paul Kidby]

Discworld graphic novels

Guards! Guards! (London: Victor Gollancz, 2000) adapted from the Terry Pratchett novel, with Graham Higgins [graph: illus/hb/Graham Higgins]

Discworld nonfiction

The Streets of Ankh-Morpork: Being a Concise and Possibly Even Accurate Mapp of the Great City of the Discworld (London: Corgi, 1993) with Stephen Player and Terry Pratchett [nonfiction: chap: fold-out map with booklet: Discworld: illus/pb/Stephen Briggs]
The Discworld Companion: The Definitive Guide to Terry Pratchett's Discworld (London: Victor Gollancz, 1994) with Terry Pratchett [nonfiction: illus/Stephen Briggs: hb/Josh Kirby]
- The Discworld Companion (London: Victor Gollancz, 1997) with Terry Pratchett [nonfiction: exp of the above: illus/Stephen Briggs: pb/Josh Kirby]
  - The New Discworld Companion (London: Gollancz, 2003) with Terry Pratchett [nonfiction: exp vt of the above: pb/Paul Kidby]
    - Turtle Recall: The Discworld Companion ... so far (London: Gollancz, 2012) with Terry Pratchett [nonfiction: exp vt of the above: hb/Marc Simonetti]
      - The Ultimate Discworld Companion (London: Gollancz, 2021) with Terry Pratchett [nonfiction: exp vt of the above: illus/Paul Kidby: hb/]
The Discworld Mapp: Being the Onlie True and Mostlie Accurate Mappe of the Fantastyk & Magical Dyscworlde (London: Corgi, 1995) with Stephen Player and Terry Pratchett [nonfiction: chap: fold-out map with booklet: Discworld: illus/Stephen Briggs and Stephen Player: pb/Stephen Player]
Discworld's Unseen University Diary 1998 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1997) with Terry Pratchett [diary: with additional material: Discworld: illus/pb/Paul Kidby]
A Tourist Guide to Lancre: A Discworld Mapp (London: Corgi, 1998) with Paul Kidby and Terry Pratchett [nonfiction: chap: fold-out map with booklet: Discworld: illus/pb/Paul Kidby]
Nanny Ogg's Cookbook (London: Doubleday, 1999) with Terry Pratchett [nonfiction: humorous recipes and folklore written as though by Pratchett's titular witch character: Discworld: illus/hb/Paul Kidby]
Discworld's Ankh-Morpork City Watch Diary 1999 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1998) with Terry Pratchett [diary: with additional material: Discworld: illus/hb/Paul Kidby]
Discworld Assassins' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2000 (London: Victor Gollancz, 1999) with Terry Pratchett [diary: with additional material: Discworld: illus/hb/Paul Kidby]
Discworld Fools' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2001 (London: Victor Gollancz, 2000) with Terry Pratchett [diary: with additional material: Discworld: illus/hb/Paul Kidby]
Discworld Thieves' Guild Yearbook and Diary 2002 (London: Gollancz, 2001) with Terry Pratchett [diary: with additional material: Discworld: illus/hb/Paul Kidby]
Discworld (Reformed) Vampyre's Diary 2003 (London: Gollancz, 2002) with Terry Pratchett [diary: with additional material: Discworld: illus/hb/Paul Kidby]
Ankh-Morpork Post Office Handbook Discworld Diary 2007 (London: Gollancz, 2006) with Terry Pratchett [diary: with additional material: Discworld: hb/Paul Kidby]
The Wit and Wisdom of Discworld (London: Doubleday, 2007) compiled by Briggs from the works of Terry Pratchett [quotations: hb/Larry Rostant]
Lu-Tze's Yearbook of Enlightenment 2008 (London: Gollancz, 2007) with Terry Pratchett [diary: with additional material: Discworld: illus/hb/Paul Kidby]
The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume I (London: Gollancz, 2019) with Terry Pratchett [omni of material from Discworld Diaries (see above) for 1998, 2000, 2002 and 2007: hb/Paul Kidby]
The Ankh-Morpork Archives: Volume II (London: Gollancz, 2019) with Terry Pratchett [omni of material from Discworld Diaries (see above) for 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2008: hb/Paul Kidby]

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