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''Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own . . . he is a satirist of enormous talent'' The Times

The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .
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''Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It''s the other way around.''

Three witches - Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick - have gathered on a lonely heath. A king has been cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. An infant heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing . . .

Witches don''t have these kind of dynastic problems themselves in fact, they don't have leaders.

Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders the witches don''t have. But even she f

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'Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift, he is a satirist of enormous talent' * The Times *
'One of the perennial joys of modern fiction' * Mail on Sunday *
'One of the pleasures of the book is the way in which literary classics float effortlessly through them in a way that would be pounced on as inter-textual in another author but is never allowed to become strident or alienating in Pratchett's work' * Guardian *

Wyrd Sisters

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    A Paperback by Terry Pratchett, Joanne Harris

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Corgi Books
      Published 25 April 2019
      ISBN-13 9780552173308
      978-0552173308
      ISBN-10 0552173304
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      Description

      Book Synopsis

      ''Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own . . . he is a satirist of enormous talent'' The Times

      The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle, that is . . .
      ___________________

      ''Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It''s the other way around.''

      Three witches - Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick - have gathered on a lonely heath. A king has been cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. An infant heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing . . .

      Witches don''t have these kind of dynastic problems themselves in fact, they don't have leaders.

      Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders the witches don''t have. But even she f

      Trade Review

      'Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift, he is a satirist of enormous talent' * The Times *
      'One of the perennial joys of modern fiction' * Mail on Sunday *
      'One of the pleasures of the book is the way in which literary classics float effortlessly through them in a way that would be pounced on as inter-textual in another author but is never allowed to become strident or alienating in Pratchett's work' * Guardian *

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