UNSEEN ACADEMICALS

You've never seen football like this before!<br><br><b>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.</b><br><br><b>'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football</b>. Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe and everything'<i> The Times</i><br><br>‘Another <b>brilliant and funny</b> book from a <b>master storyteller’</b> 5-star reader review<br><br><b>In the magical city of Ankh-Morpork, the beautiful game is about to get <i>really</i> ugly. . .</b><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><b>And the thing about football - the <i>important</i> thing about football - is that it is not just about football. Here we go, here we go, here we go!</b><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><u>Praise for the <i>Discworld</i> series:</u><br><br><b>'One of our greatest fantasists, </b>and beyond a doubt<b> the funniest' </b>George R.R. Martin<br><br><b>‘One of the most consistently funny writers </b>around’ Ben Aaronovitch<br><br>‘Pratchett is <b>a master storyteller</b>’ <i>Guardian</i><br><br>'[Pratchett’s] spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series <b>one of the perennial joys of modern fiction'</b> <i>Mail on Sunday</i><br><br>'One of those rare writers who<b> appeals to everyone</b>’ <i>Daily Express</i><br><br>‘<b>Masterful and brilliant</b>’ <i>Fantasy & Science Fiction</i><br><br>‘Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own… he <b>is a satirist of enormous talent</b> ... <b>incredibly funny</b> ... <b>compulsively readable'</b> <i>The Times</i><br><br>‘The <b>best humorous English author</b> since P.G. Wodehouse'<i> The Sunday Telegraph</i><br><br>‘Nothing short of <b>magical</b>’ <i>Chicago Tribune</i><br><br>'Consistently <b>funny</b>, consistently <b>clever</b> and consistently <b>surprising</b> in its twists and turns' <i>SFX</i><br><br>‘[Discworld is] <b>compulsively readable, fantastically inventive</b>, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world…<b>There's never been anything quite like it</b>’ <i>Evening Standard</i>