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Discworld Series Book 37: Unseen Academicals

AuthorTerry Pratchett

NarratorStephen Briggs

SeriesDiscworld, Book 37

Duration12h 18m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Fantasy

PublisherPenguin Books Ltd

VersionUnabridged

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Football has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork. 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. This is not going to be a gentleman's game. The prospect of the Big Match draws in a street urchin 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 (and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt). 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!

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