Join us for a very special Book Club with Terry Pratchett, who will talk about his 37th Discworld novel, Unseen Academicals...
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 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 Mr Nutt (and 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.
Hosted by John Mullan, professor of English at University College London and 2009 Man Booker judge, the Guardian's Book Club examines a book a month, via a weekly column in the Guardian Review, a live Q&A session with the author, and a blog-discussion of the featured novel. Mullan's first three columns discuss the book in question; his final column consists of a selection of your comments from the live event and the blog.
To find out more visit www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/bookclub
Terry Prachett image by David Bird
Date: Monday 14 December
Time: 19:00
Venue: Hall One
Please note that online booking closes 90 minutes prior to the start of the performance.
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