Book description
They say that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it is
not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.
The last thing the wizard Drum Billet did, before Death laid a
bony hand on his shoulder, was to pass on his staff of power to the
eighth son of an eighth son. Unfortunately for his colleagues in the
chauvinistic (not to say misogynistic) world of magic, he failed to
check that the baby in question was a son. Everybody knows that
there's no such thing as a female wizard. But now it's gone and
happened, there's nothing much anyone can do about it. Let the battle
of the sexes begin...
Terry Pratchett
is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series,
the first of which,
The Colour of Magic
, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty bestselling
books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he
is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well
as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide
sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and they have been
translated into thirty-seven languages.
