<p><b>'This isn't just football it's Discworld football. Or to borrow another phrase it's about life the Universe and everything' </b><i>The Times</i><br><br><b>The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist of a flat planet balanced on the back of four elephants which stand on the back of a giant turtle that is . . . </b><br><br>Football has come to the ancient city of <b>Ankh-Morpork</b>. And now the wizards of <b>Unseen University </b>must win a football match without using magic so they're in the mood for trying everything else. <br><br>This is not going to be a gentleman’s game.<br><br> The prospect of the <b>Big Match</b> 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<b> Mr Nutt </b>(and no one knows anything much about Mr Nutt not even Mr Nutt) but there is something powerful and dark locked away inside him. <br><br>As the match approaches secrets are forced into the light and four lives will be entangled and changed for ever. Here we go here we go here we go!<br>________________________<br><br><i>The Discworld novels can be read in any order but <b>Unseen Academicals</b> is the seventh book in the Wizards series. </i></p>