Terry Pratchett: Unseen Academicals, Gebunden
Unseen Academicals
- (Discworld Novel 37)
(if available from our supplier)
- Publisher:
- Transworld Publishers Ltd, 11/2018
- Binding:
- Gebunden
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780857525932
- Item number:
- 10638418
- Volume:
- 544 Pages
- Weight:
- 542 g
- Format:
- 203 x 131 mm
- Thickness:
- 48 mm
- Release date:
- 1.11.2018
- Note
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Blurb
A special hardback gift edition of 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 Academicalsis 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 doubtthe funniest' George R. R. Martin
'One of those rare writers whoappeals 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
Biography
Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of over three dozen novels, is one of the worlds best-selling novelists writing in the English language. His books have sold more than 65 milllion copies worldwide. In addition to his phenomenaland hugely popularDiscworld series for adults, Terry is the beloved author several childrens books. He was awarded Britains highest honor for a childrens novel, the Carnegie Medal. In 2008, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II for his services to literature. Terry lives in England, where he writes all the time. The characters and setting of THE TIFFANY ACHING ADVENTURES are dear to the authors heart, reflecting (obliquely) much of his own childhood in Englands Chalk countrythe part of the country where he still lives today. Mr. Pratchett and his wife, Lyn, have one grown daughter and many cats. Anyone can find out more about Terry at Harpers own website: terrypratchettbooks.com. In 2008, Terry Pratchett was diagnosed with early onset Alzheimers Disease.
