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Fiction, Fantasy

Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our ownhe is a satirist of enormous talentThe 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. Its the other way around.

Three witches –Granny Weatherwax,Nanny OggandMagrat 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 dont have these kind of dynastic problems themselves in fact, they dont have leaders.

Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders the witches dont have. But evenshefound that meddling in royal politics was a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe
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The Discworld novels can be read in any order butWyrd Sistersis the second book in the Witches series.