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Thursday Next Paperback - 2008

by Jasper Fforde

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Literary sleuth Thursday Next is once again out to make the world safe for fiction in the fifth installment of Fforde's wildly popular series. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's newest adventure will be celebrated by fans and critics alike.

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Details

  • Title Thursday Next
  • Author Jasper Fforde
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very Good+
  • Pages 384
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Penguin Books, New York
  • Date 2008-07
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # ABS1430
  • ISBN 9780143113560 / 0143113569
  • Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
  • Dimensions 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.7 in (19.05 x 12.95 x 1.78 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Demographic Orientation: Urban
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Fantasy fiction, Time travel
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

The fifth installment in Jasper Fforde’s New York Times bestselling series follows literary detective Thursday Next on another adventure in her alternate reality of literature-obsessed England

Jasper Fforde has thrilled readers everywhere with his gloriously outlandish novels in the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. And with another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainmentis Thursday Next: First Among Sequels, Fforde’s famous literary detective is once again ready to make the world safe for fiction. Thursday Next is grappling with a host of problems in BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes, and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once- hilarious Thomas Hardy novels, to name just a few—all while captaining the ship Moral Dilemma and facing down her most vicious enemy yet: herself. Thursday’s zany investigations continue with Our Thursdays is Missing. Look for the five other bestselling Thursday Next novels, including Jasper Fforde’s latest bestseller, The Woman Who Died A Lot. Visit jasperfforde.com for a ffull window into the Ffordian world!

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From the publisher

Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales. The Eyre Affair was his first novel in the bestselling series of Thursday Next novels, which includes Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of Our Thursdays is Missing, and The Woman Who Died A Lot. The series has more than one million copies (and counting) in print. He is also the author of The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear of the Nursery Crime series, Shades of Grey, and books for young readers, including The Last Dragonslayer. Visit jasperfforde.com.

Media reviews

' Playful . . . It's not hard to see what this enthusiasm is about. . . . It's easy to bedelighted by a writer who loves books so madly.'
Janet Maslin, The New York Times

' What keeps this series humming is Fforde's lively engagement with books and theindefatigable woman he's created to defend them.'
John Freeman, People

'Richly crammed with jokes, ideas, and action. Brainier silliness is hard to find.'
USA Today

' The BookWorld seems to have encouraged Fforde's rogue imagination to escape allfetters and really go wild.'
Michael Dirda, The Washington Post

About the author

Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales. The Eyre Affair was his first novel in the bestselling series of Thursday Next novels, which includes Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of Our Thursdays is Missing, and The Woman Who Died A Lot. The series has more than one million copies (and counting) in print. He is also the author of The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear of the Nursery Crime series, Shades of Grey, and books for young readers, including The Last Dragonslayer. Visit jasperfforde.com.