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Unseen Academicals

The funny and fantastical football novel from the bestselling author

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Unseen Academicals

Autor: Terry Pratchett
Czyta: Colin Morgan, Peter Serafinowicz, Bill Nighy
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Over 1 million Discworld audiobooks sold – discover the extraordinary universe of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld like never before.

The audiobook of Unseen Academicals is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Testament of Youth; Belfast). 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. Featuring a new theme tune composed by James Hannigan.

'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 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 . . .

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 listen to the Discworld novels in any order.

The first book in the Discworld series - The Colour of Magic - was published in 1983. Some elements of the Discworld universe may reflect this.

'This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe and everything' The Times

'No one mixes the fantastical and mundane to better comic effect' Daily Mail

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This is the 37th in a body of work so vast that it has spawned its own concordance, yet the quality remains as high as ever and the laughs as plentiful...Like all the Discworld novels, Unseen Academicals rewards a second reading. As ever it is peppered with allusions, from Keats to the Lewinsky affair, but, like Wodehouse, Pratchett wears his learning lightly and the pleasure of rereading is in teasing them out. (Peter Inham)
Mention comic fantasy and Terry Pratchett is the first name that comes to mind...behind the fantasy Terry Pratchett looks at very real contemporary issues and scores many goals. This isn't just football, it's Discworld football. Or, to borrow another phrase, it's about life, the Universe, and everything.
The subject matter is football, with a dash of Romeo and Juliet thown in...exactly what's needed to cheer us all up in the autumnal gloom. Terry has lost none of his ability to raise a laugh...I'll wager there are a few more books in him yet.
We doubt whether Pratchett gives a fig about 22 men kicking a bag of wind,but he's ever fascinated by people,our vagaries, our vanities and our triumphs. And, when all's said and done, football is all about us, wherever we sit in society. In case you hadn't already guessed, the man of the match award goes, not for the first time, to Sir Terry Pratchett.
Satirical, historical, fantastical and irresistible.
The secret of Terry Pratchett's comic fantasy isn't so much the wackiness of the fantasy as the reliability of the comedy...Thirty-seven books in and with sales now topping 60m, Discworld is still going strong...with undimmed, triumphant exuberance. (Harry Ritchie)
You'd have thought that, by now, Pratchett would be running out of ideas; thankfully, however, the universe he created 25 years ago just keeps on giving...It's a triumphant effort.
His writing remains as spry as ever, with the humour coming thick and fast ...Satire, parody and inspired wordplay all jostle for space ...unfailingly good fun...from an author seemingly incapable of penning a bad joke.
If it's neither the funniest nor the most profound Pratchett of recent years, it's still better than most people's best. (Alex Sarll)
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Didn’t know I could enjoy football cliches mixed with discworld like this. While the ending was quite foreshadowed, the story still had good suspense archs and plenty of pratchet’s wit :). And the performance was very good, although i was lost between similar sounding voices once or twice.

Witty football fantasy performance

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it's a bit longer because there are 2 stories (connected, of course) happening at the same time. and tbh it also feels a bit long sometimes. but i still enjoyed it very much!

2 in 1 (kind of)

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love the book, very unhappy with the narration which is at odds even with the fee descriptors provided by the great T P.

love the book, very unhappy with the narration

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A talented voice actor that constantly picks voices that hurt my ears or I just find plain irritating. The new series has mostly been good but every once in a while I really miss Stephen Briggs. The voice for Dr Lawn had to be the most baffling to me.

Well voiced and yet grating

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