By Deirdre Donahue, USA TODAY

Enormously popular in the UK where he is revered as a successor to P.G. Wodehouse who happens to write fantasy, British writer Terry Pratchett has his best debut as his satirical novel Snuff lands at No. 21 on USA TODAY's Best-Selling Books list.

Snuff, which Publishers Weekly called a "lively outing, complete with sly shout-outs to Jane Austen and gritty police procedurals," is his 39th book in the Discworld series begun in 1983. In 2009, Pratchett was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for "his services to literature." In 2007, the then-59-year-old writer announced he has early-onset Alzheimer's. Pratchett continues to write and give public appearances but no longer sign books.

Oh, and the title? That's snuff as in tobacco, thank you very much.