Book description
Things like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was
best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows
met in the middle.
Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly
murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child 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 they didn't have. But even she
found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more complicated than
certain playwrights would have you believe, particularly when the
blood on your hands just won't wash off and you're facing a future
with knives in it...
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 and the
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction, 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.
