Unseen Academicals

Terry Pratchett

Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork — not the oldfashioned, grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast footballwith pointy hats for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you dropthem. And now, the wizards of Unseen University must win a footballmatch, without using magic, so they’re in the mood for tryingeverything else. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a streeturchin with a wonderful talent for kicking a tin can, a maker ofjolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might just turnout to be the greatest fashion model there has ever been, and themysterious Mr Nutt (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, noteven Mr Nutt, which worries him, too). As the match approaches, fourlives are entangled and changed for ever. Because the thing aboutfootball — the important thing about football — is that it is notjust about football. Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!