title: The Witches Trilogy (A Discworld Omnibus: "Equal Rites", "Wyrd Sisters", "Witches Abroad")
author:  Terry Pratchett 
description: Gollancz hardcover 2001 4th reprint fine condition book in vg++ condition dw In stock shipped from our UK warehouse
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  # Discworld 14 - Lords and Ladies
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Lords And Ladies
  
  
  By
  
  
  Terry Pratchett
  
  
  Authors Note
  
  
  By and large, most Discworld novels have stood by themselves, as complete
  books. It helps to have read them in some kind of order, but it is not
  essential.
  
  
  This one is different. I can't ignore the history of what has gone before.
  Granny Weatherwax first turned up in Equal Rites. In Wyrd Sisters she became
  the unofficial head of a tiny coven consisting of the easy-going, much-married
  Nanny Ogg and young Magrat, she of the red nose and unkempt hair and tendency
  to be soppy about raindrops and roses and whiskers on kittens.
  
  
  And what took place was a plot not unadjacent to a play about a Scottish king,
  which ended with Verence II becoming king of the little hilly, forested
  country of Lancre.
  
  
  Technically, this shouldn't have happened, since strictly speaking he was not
  the heir, but to the witches he looked like being the best man for the job
  and, as they say, all's well that ends we