Wyrd SistersThings like crowns had a troublesome effect on clever folks; it was best to leave all the reigning to the kind of people whose eyebrows met in the middle. Three witches gathered on a lonely heath. A king cruelly murdered, his throne usurped by his ambitious cousin. A child heir and the crown of the kingdom, both missing Witches don't have these kind of dynastic problems themselves in fact, they dont have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly

Bridge is desperate to see her mother again

and a dark magic that could destroy it all

'It is perfectly done

The Sisterhood always knows best

to the dark heart of nature and the darkness inside themselves

dark and dazzling

A rat catcher

and her death in 1963

a brilliant and moving novel about fame

delightfully intolerant and oh so magnificently non-PC

Pure brilliance' CHRIS WHITAKER

she comes across the story of Lee Scoresby and Iorek Byrnisson's first meeting