![]() It involves Dwarf fashion, street gangs and hooliganism, inter-university and club rivalry, and tyrannical and inter-racial politics. Unseen Academicals (the name of the University football team) basically revolves around the night time staff of the university - the mysterious Mr Nutt, Trev Likely (Nutt's colleague and son of football legend Dave Likely), Glenda (the level headed, cook extraordinaire) and Juliet (Glenda's airhead assistant blessed with glamourous good looks) - as they each come of age. There is often no main plot as such, but rather a clutch of subplots that interweave in and out of each other binding to create a whole and tightening to a climax. ![]() Trying to summarise a Pratchett book is never easy. ![]() Both though are destined to come into each other's orbit as football, modernism, class, racism and celebrity are parodied through the lens of Terry Pratchett's satirical eye. ![]() Though seemingly unrelated, two events have occurred in the city of Ankh-Morpork - an ancient football trophy is discovered in the Royal Art Museum and Mr Nutt who seemingly has no past, nor any memory of it, has started to work in the Unseen University as a candle dribbler. ![]()
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