Witches Abroad

obscure bit of rhyming slang.
    * Nanny Ogg knew how to start spelling “banana,” but didn’t know how you stopped.
    * Always in front of you in any queue, for a start.
    * Racism was not a problem on the Discworld, because—what with trolls and dwarfs and so on—speciesism was more interesting. Black and white lived in perfect harmony and ganged up on green.
    * As Desiderata said, fairy godmothers tend to get heavily involved with kitchens.
    * Two logs and hope.
    * This is the last line of a Discworld joke lost, alas, to posterity.

About the Author
    Terry Pratchett is one of the most popular living authors in the world. His first story was published when he was thirteen, and his first full-length book when he was twenty. He worked as a journalist to support the writing habit, but gave up the day job when the success of his books meant that it was costing him money to go to work.

    Pratchett’s acclaimed novels are bestsellers in the U.S. and the United Kingdom and have sold more than twenty-three million copies worldwide. He lives in England, where he writes all the time. (It’s his hobby, as well.)

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CRITICS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE POND ARE STARK RAVING MAD FOR TERRY PRATCHETT!
    “Terry Pratchett is Britain’s best-selling living novelist…. What’s remarkable about him is that he is also first-rate, and in a better-ordered world he would be acclaimed as a great writer rather than a merely successful one…. Pratchett has two secret weapons up his sleeve—a terrific sense of humor and a most appealing personality.”
    Sunday Telegraph (London)
    “Philosophical humor of the highest order.”
    Kirkus Reviews
    “One of the reasons for Pratchett’s skyrocketing popularity (he has sold more than twenty million copies of his novels worldwide) is his use of multiple layers of satire. You can never pick up all the jokes he makes in one reading. And while you don’t need to have read any previous Discworld novels to appreciate a new one, he frequently weaves in elements from other stories to add dimension to the Discworld universe.”
    Denver Post

“Engaging, surreal satire…nothing short of magical.”
    Chicago Tribune
    “Slyly comic.”
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    “Unadulterated fun…witty, frequently hilarious.”
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    “Superb popular entertainment.”
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    “Think J. R. R. Tolkien with a sharper, more satiric edge.”
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“Trying to summarize the plot of a Pratchett novel is like describing Hamlet as a play about a troubled guy with an Oedipus complex and a murderous uncle. Pratchett isn’t Shakespeare—for one thing, he’s funnier—but his books are richly textured and far more complex than they appear at first…Consider yourself grabbed by the collar, with me shouting, ‘You’ve got to read this book!’”
    Barbara Mertz
    “Discworld takes the classic funny universe through its logical, and comic, evolution.”
    Cleveland Plain Dealer
    “Truly original…Discworld is more complicated and satisfactory than Oz…has the energy of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland …Brilliant!”
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O THER B OOKS BY T ERRY P RATCHETT
    The Carpet People
    The Dark Side of the Sun
    Strata • Truckers
    Diggers • Wings
    Only You Can Save Mankind
    Johnny and the Dead • Johnny and the Bomb
    The Unadulterated Cat (with Gray Jollife)
    Good Omens (with Neil Gaiman)
    T HE D ISCWORLD ® S ERIES :
    Thud! • Going Postal
    Monstrous Regiment • Night Watch
    The Last Hero • The Truth • Thief of Time
    The Fifth Elephant • Carpe Jugulum
    The Last Continent • Jingo
    Hogfather • Feet of Clay • Maskerade
    Interesting Times • Soul Music • Men at Arms
    Lords and Ladies • Small Gods
    Witches Abroad • Reaper Man
    Moving Pictures • Eric (with Josh Kirby)
    Guards! Guards! • Pyramids
    Wyrd Sisters • Sourcery • Mort • Equal Rites
    The Light Fantastic • The Color of Magic

    The Art of Discworld (with Paul Kidby)
    Mort: A Discworld Big Comic (with Graham Higgins)
    The Streets of Ankh-Morpork (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Companion (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Discworld Mapp (with Stephen Briggs)
    The Pratchett Portfolio (with Paul Kidby)

Copyright
    This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be