Product Description

When King Verence of Lancre is murdered by his cousin, his baby son is rescued by three witches. They are Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and the downtrodden Magrat Garlick. This illustrated edition of Terry Pratchett's Discworld novel, "Wyrd Sisters" ties in with the Channel 4 TV screenings.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3043 in Books
• Published on: 1989-11-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 251 pages

From the Back Cover
Witches are not by nature gregarious, and they certainly 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 difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe...

Wyrd Sisters is the sixth novel in the Discworld sequence - the funniest fantasy series ever.

About the Author
Terry Pratchett lives in Wiltshire. His Discworld series is a publishing phenomenon. He has been awarded four honorary doctorates. He won the Carnegie Medal for the Discworld novel MAURICE AND HIS AMAZING EDUCATED RODENTS. He was made an OBE in 1998.

Customer Reviews

The Discword Spins On

Terry Pratchett has become one of the most popular authors alive today and his popularity is richly deserved. But not even with his fertile mind could ever have envisaged the heights to which his Discworld series would rise. This book was first published in 1988 and is number six in the Discworld novels.

You would think that a fantasy world full of trolls, zombies, witches, vampires would be an alien concept to most readers. Werewolves and dwarves in the Ank Morpork city watch. Wizards running a university. All this born in the mind of one of the funniest minds writing today. Surely this style of writing would have a limited readership? But no the books are loved by anybody and everybody and are read by people who would not normally allow fantasy fiction anywhere near their book shelves. This is the Discworld of Terry Pratchett.

In this episode Granny Weatherwax and her fellow coven members are meddling in politics, the royal kind, which Granny Weatherwax thinks is the worst kind of all. The Wyrd sisters as they are known battle to put the right king on the right throne, at least that's the general idea. After all what are witches for . . .

my second book and its so funny
Well i treated myself to the witches rulogy as an xmas pressie to myself ad i handt got around to reading it..til i had my toth out recently..and it cheered me up no matter how much pain i was in. I adore granny weatherwax and her dark dark humpur and steadfast ways...nanny ogg is hilaroius as the type of witch in her da to come home with many a grass stain! Her cat is something to be afraid of but laugh at..
the plot i can see how is a parody of shakespeare but you havent got to have read any of his work in your life to find this funny.
I loved the plot..and i found it as good as the first..if not better!
havent read a single book then i would say begin with the witches trilogy or deaths trilogy.soo wonderful.

WYRD SISTERS!!!
Ok, this is Wyrd Sisters, one of many books in the Discworld series by Terry Pratchet. The Discworld is a flat world carried on the backs of four giant elephants standing on the shell of a huge turtle which swims through space till the end of time. The turtle is called A'tuin if you were wondering.

Basically, in brief, three witches (Granny Weaterwax, Nanny Ogg, and Magrat Garlik) have to look after the heir to the throne of Lancre after the king was murdered.

They send him to a travelling theatre while his uncle (the one who murdered his dad who was also the king just so you know) rules Lancre. His uncle hates witches so starts to have witch hunts. Nobody likes him. He's nasty!

His dad is now haunting the castle and is eternally hungry..

Odd, I know, but trust me, you'll love it! Terry pratchet has a great sense of humour, but to be honest, YOU SHOULD READ IT!!

Everybody says you need to know about shakespeare to get the jokes in this book because its all about the theatre, but you really don't. I've never read shakespeare in my life, but I found this hilarious.
Give it a go!