The first book in the Discworld series - The Colour of Magic - was published in 1983. Unseen Academicals is the seventh book in the Wizards series, but you can listen to the Discworld novels in any order. Īnd the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football. To do so, 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. so they're in the mood for trying everything else. And now the wizards of Unseen University must win a football match without using magic. 'We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.'įootball has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan. BAFTA and Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy ( Love Actually Pirates of the Caribbean Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reads the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz ( Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace Shaun of the Dead) stars as the voice of Death. (Oct.The audiobook of Unseen Academicals is read by Colin Morgan ( Merlin Testament of Youth Belfast).

At its heart, this is an intelligent, cheeky love letter to football, its fans and the unifying power of sports. Though the book suffers from a few awkward moments (Pratchett’s attempts to discuss racism through the strained relationships of dwarves, humans and goblins fall particularly flat), the prose crackles with wit and charm, and the sendups of league football, academic posturing, Romeo and JulietĪnd cheesy sports dramas are razor sharp and hilarious but never cruel. As the wizards struggle to learn the game, aided by the university’s hired help, Ankh-Morpork’s ruler schemes to use the competition for his own purposes. The always out-of-touch wizards at Ankh-Morpork’s Unseen University stand to lose a very big bequest unless they enter a team in a violent but popular street sport competition. ), an affectionate satire on the foibles of sports and sports fans. Football, food, fashion and wizards collide in Pratchett’s 37th Discworld novel (after 2007’s Making Money

Unseen academicals by terry pratchett