Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
Wyrd Sisters, Terry Pratchett
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Wyrd Sisters
(Discworld Novel 6)

Author: Terry Pratchett

Series: Discworld Novels #6

Narrator: Indira Varma, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy

Unabridged: 9 hr 53 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/28/2022


Synopsis

Brought to you by Penguin.

Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before

The audiobook of Wyrd Sisters is narrated by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones; Luther; This Way Up). BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Love Actually; Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace; Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan.

'Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.'

Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the royal crown, both missing.

Witches don't have these kinds of leadership problems themselves - in fact, they don't have leaders.

Granny Weatherwax is the most highly regarded of the leaders they don't have. But even she finds that meddling in royal politics is a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe. Particularly when the blood on your hands just won't wash off...

With an afterword by Joanne Harris.

'Pratchett's Discworld books have made millions of people happy' Guardian

'I love Terry Pratchett' Caitlin Moran

Wyrd Sisters is the second book in the Witches series, but you can listen to the Discworld novels in any order.

The first book in the Discworld series - The Colour of Magic - was published in 1983. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this.

© Dunmanifestin Ltd 1988 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

About Terry Pratchett

Terry Pratchett (1948–2015) is the acclaimed creator of the globally revered Discworld series. In all, he authored more than fifty bestselling books, which have sold more than one hundred million copies worldwide. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he was the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal. He was awarded a knighthood by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature in 2009, although he always wryly maintained that his greatest service to literature was to avoid writing any.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Mario the lone bookwolf on June 14, 2020

The innuendos to Shapespeares´work are the icing on the cake of the 2nd witch story. The normal Pratchett universe is already filled with deeper meanings and hidden treasures of pop culture references, innuendos, and ironic criticism, but if the motive is satirizing one of the most famous writers of......more

Goodreads review by [ J o ] on August 23, 2023

[First Read: 7th March, 2013. 3 stars. Second Read: 5th October, 2018. 3 stars. Third Read: 25th July, 2023. 5 stars.] A veritable smorgasbord of Shakespeare references sees the 6th Discworld novel come to life, dragging the two most prominent witches (Granny and Nanny) and their occult-leaning protege......more

Goodreads review by Overhaul on March 24, 2022

Dentro de Mundodisco, Brujerías, es un libro repleto de guiños Shakespearianos, Macbeth. Con momentos hilarantes y personajes que uno se lleva dentro de su corazón y cabeza. Que tres brujas, la guardia de Ankh-Morpork tiene competencia. Sus impagables protagonistas son un aquelarre aunque no les gust......more

Goodreads review by Thibault on July 10, 2023

King Verence was murdered, stabbed in the back and pushed down some stairs. But Death tells him that he still has a role to play in the world. It’s King Verence’s fate to become a ghost. King Verence doesn’t like the sound of that. He’s already feeling hungry. And ghosts can’t eat. A coven of three w......more

Goodreads review by Bradley on March 25, 2024

Re-read 3/25/24: Doing a grand re-read of all of Discworld because it just seems to be THAT necessary. Let's put it this way: in this damn spherical world, things are NOT that wholesome, intelligent, or magical. That's why the DISCworld is so important. And yes, even Ankh-Morpork is more wholesome than......more


Quotes

'Like Jonathan Swift, Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own, and like Swift, he is a satirist of enormous talent' The Times

'One of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday

'One of the pleasures of the book is the way in which literary classics float effortlessly through them in a way that would be pounced on as inter-textual in another author but is never allowed to become strident or alienating in Pratchett's work' Guardian