Unseen Academicals

A Discworld Novel

By: Terry Pratchett

Narrated by: Colin Morgan, Bill Nighy, Peter Serafinowicz

“Football, food, fashion and wizards collide in Pratchett’s affectionate satire on the foibles of sports and sports fans. . . .The prose crackles with wit and charm. . . . At its heart, this is an intelligent, cheeky love letter to football, its fans and the unifying power of sports.” —Publishers Weekly

Football (aka soccer) comes to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork, upending the wizards of Unseen University—and dividing Discworld—in this wonderfully funny novel in Sir Terry Pratchett’s internationally bestselling Discworld series (and the 7th book in the Wizards collection). This fantastic new recording is read by Colin Morgan (Merlin; Belfast), with Golden Globe award-winning actor Bill Nighy (Pirates of the Caribbean; Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows) reading the footnotes, and Peter Serafinowicz (Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace) starring as the voice of Death.

The wizards at Ankh-Morpork’s Unseen University are renowned for many things—wisdom, magic, teatime—but athletics, not so much. When Lord Vetinari, the city’s benevolent tyrant, strongly suggests to Archchancellor Mustrum Ridcully that the university revive its sports program and field a football team composed of faculty, students, and staff—or lose the funding that pays for their nine daily meals—the wizards of UU find themselves in a quandary. First, they have to understand what makes foot-the-ball so popular with Ankh-Morporkians. Then they have to learn how to play it—and win—without using magic.

Of course, the thing about football is that it is never just about football.

The Discworld novels can be read in any order but Unseen Academicals is the seventh and final book in the Wizards collection (and 37th Discworld book). The other books in the Wizards collection include:

• The Color of Magic
• The Light Fantastic
• Sourcery
• Eric
• Interesting Times
• The Last Continent

Really good but...

It was really good but I can't help but feel this should be a standalone book, I was super disappointed the last book in the rincewind series had next to zero rincewind.

loved the book, hated the voices

I was surprised by how much I've enjoyed the new audiobooks for the discworld except for this book. I feel like the voices were just ridiculous and hard to understand and didn't capture the characters very well

FANTASTIC narration!!!

Standard Discworld, by which I mean very entertaining with the bite of dry humor that I love in Pratchett's work. Recommemded.

A fantastic Discworld book

Almost perfect, but the voice used for Trevor Likely sounded like a muppet, and not in a good way.

Silly Fun!

I always enjoy the way Pratchett's books start out by introducing a variety of characters and locations that all seem scattered and random, but piece by piece they all come together and make a really good story. I laughed, I "awww"d, I wanted to cheer for the hapless academics. And I definitely want to listen to this one again. Well done, and thanks for the laughs.