Unseen Academicals
by Terry Pratchett (Doubleday, 2009); audiobook read by Stephen Briggs (ISIS, 2009)
Pratchett brings together the wizards and staff of Unseen University and the traditionally violent Ankh-Morporkian game of foot-the-ball to explore notions of tradition and expectation. Glenda Sugarbean and Mr Nutt make for intriguing, rather serious, one-off characters, balancing out the madcap romp.