By Terry Pratchett.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Everybody knows there’s no such thing as a female wizard. So when the wizard Drum Billet accidentally passes on his staff of power to an eighth\u00a0daughter<\/em>\u00a0of an eighth son, a girl called Eskarina (Esk, for short), the misogynistic world of wizardry wants nothing to do with her. Magic and the equality of the sexes….<\/p>\n\n\n\n This is the book that introduces us to Granny Weatherwax, a no-nonsense, country witch who takes ‘Esk’ to study at the Unseen University to be the world’s first female wizard as the 8th daughter of and 8th son, it’s her destiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n A funny read that challenges gender equality albeit in a light-hearted way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Terry Pratchett. Everybody knows there’s no such thing as a female wizard. So when the wizard Drum Billet accidentally passes on his staff of power to an eighth\u00a0daughter\u00a0of an eighth son, a girl called Eskarina (Esk, for short), the misogynistic world […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,48,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discworld-series","category-fantasy","category-fiction"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/equal_rites-1.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":379,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378\/revisions\/379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idrisstone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Thankfully Granny Weatherwax, the Discworld’s most famous witch, has plenty of experience ignoring the status quo. With Granny’s help, Esk sneaks her way into the magical Unseen University and befriends apprentice wizard Simon.
But power is unpredictable, and these bright young students soon find themselves in a whole new dimension of trouble. Let the battle of the sexes begin…<\/p>\n\n\n\n