Locus Award nominee 2010.
Football
has come to the ancient city of Ankh-Morpork – not the old-fashioned,
grubby pushing and shoving, but the new, fast football with pointy hats
for goalposts and balls that go gloing when you drop them. 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.
The prospect of the Big Match draws in a likely lad 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 Mr Nutt.
(No one knows anything much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt, which
worries him, too.)
As the match approaches, four lives are entangled and changed for ever. Because 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!
The series
The Discworld series is a continuous history of a world not totally unlike our own, except that it is a flat disc carried on the backs of four elephants astride a giant turtle floating through space, and that it is peopled by, among others, wizards, dwarves, soldiers, thieves, beggars, vampires and witches. Within the history of Discworld, there are many individual stories which can be enjoyed in any order. But reading them in the sequence in which they were written can increase your enjoyment through the accumulation of all the fine detail that contributes to the teeming imaginative complexity of this brilliantly conceived world.
#1 · 1983The Colour of Magic 
#2 · 1986The Light Fantastic 
#3 · 1987Equal Rites 
#4 · 1987Mort 
#5 · 1988Sourcery 
#6 · 1988Wyrd Sisters 
#7 · 1989Pyramids 
#8 · 1989Guards! Guards! 
#9 · 1990Eric 
#10 · 1990Moving Pictures 
#11 · 1991Reaper Man 
#12 · 1991Witches Abroad 
#13 · 1992Small Gods 
#14 · 1992Lords and Ladies 
#15 · 1993Men at Arms 
#16 · 1994Soul Music 
#17 · 1994Interesting Times 
#18 · 1995Maskerade 
#19 · 1996Feet of Clay 
#20 · 1996Hogfather 
#21 · 1997Jingo 
#22 · 1998The Last Continent 
#23 · 1998Carpe Jugulum 
#24 · 1999The Fifth Elephant 
#25 · 2000The Truth 
#26 · 2001Thief of Time 
#27 · 2002Night Watch 
#28 · 2003Monstrous Regiment 
#29 · 2004Going Postal 
#30 · 2005Thud! 
#31 · 2007Making Money 
#32 · 2009Unseen Academicals 
#33 · 2011Snuff 
#34 · 2013Raising Steam 
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