''Look after the dead'', said the priests, ''and the dead will look after you.''Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your treasury is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father.Hed had the best education money could buy of course, but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassin''s Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen...
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.
On a world supported on the back of a giant turtle (sex unknown), a gleeful, explosive, wickedly eccentric expedition sets out. There''s an avaricious but inept wizard, a naive tourist whose luggage moves on hundreds of dear little legs, dragons who only exist if you believe in them, and of course THE EDGE of the planet
This is where the dragons went. They lienot dead, not asleep, butdormant. And although the space they occupy isn''t like normal space, nevertheless they are packed in tightly. They could put you in mind of a can of sardines, if you thought sardines were huge and scaly. And presumably, somewhere, there''s a key... Guards! Guards! is the eighth Discworld novel - and after this, dragons will never be the same again!
In the beginning was the Word. And the Word was: "Hey, you!" For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love. He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing hi
MIGHTY BATTLES! REVOLUTION! DEATH! WAR! (AND HIS SONS TERROR AND PANIC, AND DAUGHTER CLANCY) The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought on by the revolutionary treatise What I did on My Holidays. Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. War (and Clancy) are spreading through the ancient cities. And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is: Rincewind the Wizard, who can''t even spell the word ''wizard''... Cohen the barbarian hero, five feet tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime''s experience of not dying... and a very special butterfly
A collection of three of the author''s "Discworld" novels; "Equal Rites", "Wyrd Sisters" and "Witches Abroad", that feature the characters Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrit Garlick.
Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death''s apprentice
