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Football comes to the Discworld! And the thing about football -- the important thing about football -- is that it is not just about football.
Football is supposed to be a gentleman's game, played on venerable university lawns for honour, polite applause and a hearty match tea afterwards. Unfortunately for the gentlemen, the rest of the world doesn't see it that way. Football has moved on, to the streets, and now it inhabits a world of pies, chants and jumpers for goalposts. This is a world where a talent for keeping tin cans in the air could make you a local celebrity, and where any polite applause is lost in the roar of pitched battles between fans. This is a world of life or death.
And if the gentlemen want to try and bend it to their rules again, they're going to have a fight on their hands.
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TERRY PRATCHETT is the acclaimed creator of the global bestselling Discworld series, the first of which, The Colour of Magic, was published in 1983. In all, he is the author of fifty bestselling books. His novels have been widely adapted for stage and screen, and he is the winner of multiple prizes, including the Carnegie Medal, as well as being awarded a knighthood for services to literature. Worldwide sales of his books now stand at 70 million, and they have been translated into thirty-seven languages.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Football comes to Ankh-Morpork in the thirty-seventh Discworld novel.A paperback edition with the original cover art of the classic fantasy novel by Terry Pratchett, the seventh book in the Wizards series, part of the Discworld novels.'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe and everything' The Times'Another brilliant and funny book from a master storyteller' 5-star reader review'We play and are played and the best we can hope for is to do it with style.'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.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 . . .And 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!Unseen Academicals is the seventh book in the Wizards series, but you can read the Discworld novels in any order.Praise for the Discworld series-' Pratchett's spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday'Pratchett is a master storyteller' Guardian'One of our greatest fantasists, and beyond a doubt the funniest' George R.R. Martin'One of those rare writers who appeals to everyone' Daily Express'One of the most consistently funny writers around' Ben Aaronovitch'Masterful and brilliant' Fantasy & Science Fiction'Pratchett uses his other world to hold up a distorting mirror to our own. he is a satirist of enormous talent . incredibly funny . compulsively readable' The Times'The best humorous English author since P.G. Wodehouse' The Sunday Telegraph'Nothing short of magical' Chicago Tribune'Consistently funny, consistently clever and consistently surprising in its twists and turns' SFX' Discworld is compulsively readable, fantastically inventive, surprisingly serious exploration in story form of just about any aspect of our world.There's never been anything quite like it' Evening Standard 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780552167710
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