I Shall Wear Midnight

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Terry Pratchett The Discworld series 37^th Discworld novel
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Characters:	Tiffany Aching, Nac Mac Feegle, Granny Weatherwax?
Locations:	The Chalk
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I Shall Wear Midnight is the working title of the possible fourth Tiffany Aching novel in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series. Little else is known about this title. The book that precedes it in the series, Wintersmith, was released on 21 September 2006. Practchett has said that this will be the next Discworld novel following the completion of Nation. [1]

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The book, like its three predecessors, will centre on a young witch in training named Tiffany Aching and very probably characters from the other books based around her, a clan of small fairy-like^[1] creatures called variably the Nac Mac Feegle, the Pictsies or the Wee Free Men and their leaders, the Big Man (akin to a warchief of the Gallic tribes) Rob Anybody and his wife, the matriarch (or wise woman) Jeannie. This information is solely conjecture and is based upon the three novels featuring Tiffany Aching currently released, The Wee Free Men, A Hat Full of Sky and Wintersmith. The title is mentioned in Pratchett's The Art of Discworld and is also a quote in A Hat Full of Sky where Tiffany thinks "When I"m old I shall wear midnight, she'd decided. But for now she'd had enough of darkness." It is also a twist on a line from the poem Warning by Jenny Joseph: "When I am an old woman I shall wear purple, with a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me"; from which the Red Hat Society takes its base. The title is literally the only solid information about this book available at this time, and as it is only a working title we may not see a book by this name actually released. In the same paragraph of The Art of Discworld Pratchett writes this book may not even come into being.

Pratchett hinted when questioned during his Wintersmith tour that Esk, the female wizard featured in Equal Rites, may appear again for the first time in this book if it comes to be written.

Reading Order Guide

Preceded by Making Money	37^th Discword Novel	Succeeded by None
Preceded by Wintersmith	4^th Tiffany Aching Story	Succeeded by None

Terry Pratchett's Discworld

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Novels:	The Colour of Magic – The Light Fantastic – Equal Rites – Mort – Sourcery – Wyrd Sisters – Pyramids – Guards! Guards! – Eric – Moving Pictures – Reaper Man – Witches Abroad – Small Gods – Lords and Ladies – Men at Arms – Soul Music – Interesting Times – Maskerade – Feet of Clay – Hogfather – Jingo – The Last Continent – Carpe Jugulum – The Fifth Elephant – The Truth – Thief of Time – The Last Hero – The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents – Night Watch – The Wee Free Men – Monstrous Regiment – A Hat Full of Sky – Going Postal – Thud! – Wintersmith – Making Money - I Shall Wear Midnight
Short Stories:	Troll Bridge – Theatre of Cruelty – The Sea and Little Fishes – Death and What Comes Next
Other books:	The Discworld Companion – The Science of Discworld – The Science of Discworld II: The Globe – The Science of Discworld III: Darwin's Watch – The Pratchett Portfolio – The Art of Discworld – The Unseen University Challenge – The Wyrdest Link – The Streets of Ankh-Morpork – The Discworld Mapp – A Tourist Guide to Lancre – Death's Domain – Nanny Ogg's Cookbook – The Discworld Almanak – Where's My Cow? – The Unseen University Cut Out Book – The Discworld Diaries – Once More With Footnotes*
Games:	The Colour of Magic – Discworld – Discworld 2 – Discworld MUD – Discworld Noir – GURPS Discworld – Thud