Unseen Academicals

You've never seen football like this before!<BR><BR>Get into the World Cup spirit with the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett. A limited edition paperback in partnership with the National Year of Reading 2026.<BR><BR>'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe and everything' The Times<BR><BR>'Another brilliant and funny book from a master storyteller' 5-star reader review<BR><BR>In the magical city of Ankh-Morpork, the beautiful game is about to get really ugly. . .<BR><BR>The wizards of Unseen University are trading their spell books for football books and have to win a match without using any magic. . . so they're going to try everything else.<BR><BR>To do this, they recruit an unlikely group of players: Trev, a street urchin with a talent for kicking a tin can; Glenda, the night chef who makes a mean pie; Juliet, the kitchen hand turned world's greatest fashion model; and the mysterious Mr Nutt, who has something powerful, and dark, locked away inside him . . .<BR><BR>And the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. Here we go, here we go, here we go!<BR><BR>Unseen Academicals is part of the Discworld series, which can be read in any order. If you liked Unseen Academicals, try the rest of the Wizards books!<BR><BR>Praise for the Discworld series:<BR><BR>'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin<BR><BR>'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch<BR><BR>'Pratchett is a master storyteller' Guardian<BR><BR>'[Pratchett's] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday<BR><BR>'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone' Daily Express<BR><BR>'Masterful and brilliant' Fantasy & Science Fiction<BR><BR>'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own... he is a satirist of enormous talent ... incredibly funny ... compulsively readable' The Times<BR><BR>'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph<BR><BR>'Nothing short of magical' Chicago Tribune<BR><BR>'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX<BR><BR>'[Discworld is] compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world...There's never been anything quite like it' Evening Standard

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