Terry Pratchett's Discworld Starter Collection 4 Books Set - Fiction - Paperback Corgi Books

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The perfect introduction to Terry Pratchett's Discworld series! This collection includes the iconic Wyrd Sisters, a Witches novel that lampoons Shakespeare's most famous plays. There's also Guards! Guards!, the first book in the fan-favourite City Watch series of crime novels set in a fantasy world. Finally, there are two standalone stories - Pyramids, winner of 1989's BSFA Award for Best Novel, and Moving Pictures, a mash-up of classic Hollywood and Cthulhu. If you've always wanted to read Discworld but didn't know where to start, this assortment is for you. The Turtle Moves! Titles in This Set: 1. Wyrd Sisters 2. Pyramids 3. Guards! Guards! 4. Moving Pictures Description: Wyrd Sisters 'Destiny is important, see, but people go wrong when they think it controls them. It's the other way around.' Three witches - Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and Magrat 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 don't have these kind of dynastic problems themselves – in fact, they don’t have leaders. Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders the witches don't have. But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more complicated than certain playwrights would have you believe . . . Pyramids Wise words in all probability, but a tall order when, like Teppic, you have just become the pharaoh of a small and penniless country rather earlier than expected, and your treasury is unlikely to stretch to the building of a monumental pyramid to honour your dead father. He’d had the best education money could buy of course, but unfortunately the syllabus at the Assassin's Guild in Ankh-Morpork did not cover running a kingdom and basic financial acumen... Guards! Guards! Vimes ran a practised eye over the assortment before him. It was the usual Ankh-Morpork mob in times of crisis; half of them were here to complain, a quarter of them were here to watch the other half, and the remainder were here to rob, importune or sell hotdogs to the rest. Insurrection is in the air in Ankh-Morpork. The Haves and Have-Nots are about to fall out all over again. Captain Sam Vimes of the city's ramshackle Night Watch is used to this. It's enough to drive a man to drink. Well, to drink more. But this time, something is different - the Have-Nots have found the key to a dormant, lethal weapon that even they don't fully understand, and they're about to unleash a campaign of terror on the city. Time for Captain Vimes to sober up. Moving Pictures Alchemists have always thought that they can change reality, shape it to their own purpose. Imagine then the damage that could be wrought on the Discworld if they get their hands on the ultimate alchemy: the invention of motion pictures, the greatest making of illusions. It may be a triumph of universe-shaking proportions. It's either that or they're about to unlock the dark secret...