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Witches Abroad

Aug 1, 2025 9:59 PM

Author:Terry Pratchett

Witches Abroad

'You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise, it's just a cage.'

There's power in stories. The Fairy Godmother is good. The servant girl marries the Prince. Everyone lives happily ever after . . . don't they?

The witches Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat Garlick are travelling to far-distant Genua to stop a wedding and save a kingdom. But how do you fight a happy-ever-after, especially when it comes with glass slippers and a power-hungry Fairy Godmother who has made Destiny an offer it can't refuse?

It's hard to resist a good story, even when the fate of the kingdom depends on it . . .

'No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect' Daily Mail

'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George RR Martin

Witches Abroad is the third book in the Witches series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.

Reviews

Not just a great writer but also an original thinker ... funny, exciting, lighthearted and, like all the best comedy, very serious

—— The Guardian

Clever, engaging and laugh-out-loud funny

—— The Times

Warm, silly, compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world

—— Evening Standard

Brilliant and devastating. Four Treasures of the Sky tells the story of Daiyu, who is brought to America against her will and forced to hide who she is even as she grows into her true self. Weaving together myth and history, Zhang's work is both timeless and utterly necessary right now.

—— Anna North, author of the New York Times bestseller Outlawed

An instant and necessary classic, easily among the best novels of this past decade. The story lingers long after its final pages

—— T Kira Madden, author of Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls

An astonishing novel propelled by private and public histories, rich with reflections on self-making, moral calling, great love, and profound injustice

—— Megha Majumdar, author of A Burning

This unforgettable novel dazzles. An exhilarating rush of character, history and storytelling

—— Kali Fajardo-Anstine, US National Book Award finalist author of Sabrina & Corina

Brings alive a heroine for the ages, an indomitable teenage girl whose relentless spirit and self-reinvention carries this story. Daiyu is sure to take her place in the canon of great Western heroines next to True Grit's Mattie Ross

—— Juliet Grames, author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna

This book is haunting, luscious and precise - it's historical fiction as we most want and need it to be. Four Treasures of the Sky paints a neglected chapter in history with sharp and devastating brushstrokes

—— Julia Fine, author of The Upstairs House

A lyrical and sweeping Bildungsroman, fierce and moving

—— Publishers Weekly, starred review

A book to sit alongside Yaa Gyasi's Homecoming and Anna North's Outlawed, this is a powerful tale of reclamation, spun with soul by a remarkable new talent

—— Lauren Puckett, Shelf Awareness

An engulfing, bighearted, and heartbreaking novel. Illuminates the shocking injustices suffered in the 1800s, and in doing so, makes us stop and consider how much of that cruelty and injustice survives to this day

—— Ann Patchett

A sweeping adventure of identity, love, and belonging

—— C Pam Zhang, Man Booker longlisted author of 'How Much of These Hills are Gold'

Brilliant and devastating. Weaving together myth and history, it is both timeless and utterly necessary right now

—— Anna North, 'Outlawed'

An instant and necessary classic, easily among the best novels of this decade. The story lingers long after its final pages

—— T Kira Madden, acclaimed author of 'Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls'

An exhilarating rush of character, history, and storytelling. This unforgettable novel dazzles

—— Kali Fajardo-Anstine, National Book Award finalist author of 'Sabrina & Corina'

Biting and very funny

—— The Times

A compelling page-turner rendered in exquisite prose

—— Shelley Harris

Whip-smart and thoughtful with a dark vein of humour. Compulsively readable. I loved it

—— Christina Sweeney-Baird

An important novel . . . Jo Harkin does a masterful job . . . this mind-bending debut will certainly make you think

—— Book Reporter

A terrific read - I enjoyed it tremendously

—— The Ryan Tubridy Show, RTÉ Radio 1

Jo Harkin has created a speculative novel which digs into our instinctual curiosity and our need to know everything

—— Irish Examiner

Filled with delightful characters... this heart-warming book explores relationships and the dilemmas of everyday life

—— Candis

Tackling many relevant issues, it's a heart-warming read

—— Heat

Poignant, totally joyful, this is a great read

—— Fabulous

A feel-good read, with great characters to care about, it takes current issues seriously but adds plenty of humour

—— Choice

[It leaves] the reader with that fuzzy feeling you want from a feel-good book. Fans of her previous hit, The Authenticity Project, will not be disappointed

—— Woman's Weekly

A feel-good tale about the power of real-life connections

—— Sun

You can always rely on Pooley to deliver not just wonderful, lively characters but a story that leaves you feeling uplifted and hopeful

—— CultureFly

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