You’ve never seen football like this before!

Get into the World Cup spirit with the gloriously inventive and funny fantasy novel from bestselling author Terry Pratchett. A limited edition paperback in partnership with the National Year of Reading 2026.

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

Anotherbrilliant and funnybook from amaster storyteller5-star reader review

In the magical city of Ankh-Morpork, the beautiful game is about to getreallyugly. . .

The wizards of Unseen University are trading their spell books for football books and have to win a match without using any magic. . . so they’re going to try 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 – theimportantthing about football – is that it is not just about football. Here we go, here we go, here we go!

Unseen Academicals is part of the Discworld series, which can be read in any order. If you liked Unseen Academicals, try the rest of the Wizards books!