The Opera House, Ankh Morpork... a huge, rambling building, where masked figures and hooded shadows do wicked deeds in the wings... where dying the death on stage is a little bit more than just a metaphor... where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress...
Where... there's a couple of old ladies in pointy hats eating peanuts in the stalls and looking at the big chandelier and saying things like: 'There's an accident waiting to happen if ever I saw one'.
Yes... Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's greatest witches, are back for an innocent night at the opera.
So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really hum)
The series
The Discworld series is a continuous history of a world not totally unlike our own, except that it is a flat disc carried on the backs of four elephants astride a giant turtle floating through space, and that it is peopled by, among others, wizards, dwarves, soldiers, thieves, beggars, vampires and witches. Within the history of Discworld, there are many individual stories which can be enjoyed in any order. But reading them in the sequence in which they were written can increase your enjoyment through the accumulation of all the fine detail that contributes to the teeming imaginative complexity of this brilliantly conceived world.
#1 · 1983The Colour of Magic 
#2 · 1986The Light Fantastic 
#3 · 1987Equal Rites 
#4 · 1987Mort 
#5 · 1988Sourcery 
#6 · 1988Wyrd Sisters 
#7 · 1989Pyramids 
#8 · 1989Guards! Guards! 
#9 · 1990Eric 
#10 · 1990Moving Pictures 
#11 · 1991Reaper Man 
#12 · 1991Witches Abroad 
#13 · 1992Small Gods 
#14 · 1992Lords and Ladies 
#15 · 1993Men at Arms 
#16 · 1994Soul Music 
#17 · 1994Interesting Times 
#18 · 1995Maskerade 
#19 · 1996Feet of Clay 
#20 · 1996Hogfather 
#21 · 1997Jingo 
#22 · 1998The Last Continent 
#23 · 1998Carpe Jugulum 
#24 · 1999The Fifth Elephant 
#25 · 2000The Truth 
#26 · 2001Thief of Time 
#27 · 2002Night Watch 
#28 · 2003Monstrous Regiment 
#29 · 2004Going Postal 
#30 · 2005Thud! 
#31 · 2007Making Money 
#32 · 2009Unseen Academicals 
#33 · 2011Snuff 
#34 · 2013Raising Steam 
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