Unseen Academicals
Locus Award nominee 2010.
Football
has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork – not the old-fashioned,
grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats
for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. And now the
wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using
magic, so they’re in the mood for trying everything else.
The prospect of the Big Match draws in a likely lad with a
wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a
dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turn out to be the
greatest fashion model there has ever been, and the mysterious Mr Nutt.
(No one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which
worries him, too.)
As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. Because 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!
Terry Pratchett
Sir Terence David John "Terry" Pratchett, OBE (1948–2015) was an English author of fantasy novels, especially comical works. He is best known for his Discworld series of about 40 volumes. Pratchett's first novel, The Carpet People, was published in 1971, and since his first Discworld novel (The Colour of Magic) was published in 1983, he wrote two books a year on average. His 2011 Discworld novel Snuff was at the time of its release the third-fastest-selling hardback adult-audience novel since records began in the UK, selling 55,000 copies in the first three days.
Discworld
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.
Discworld consists of thirty-four primary works, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
Related series Discworld Mapps
Related series The Science of Discworld
Related series Discworld (for young readers)
Related series Discworld Reference
Related series Discworld (picture books)
