by Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde’s cheeky sleuth series features a book-loving, gun-toting, wit-slinging heroine named Thursday Next. In Thursday’s world, an alternate version of 1985 London, literature rules popular culture—audiences enact and participate in famous plays for Friday-night fun, thousands of visitors make literary pilgrimages to gawk at original manuscripts, and genetic engineering is far more advanced than in our own timeline. Thursday is a member of SO-27, the Literary Detectives or LiteraTecs. In addition, the line between literature and reality becomes increasingly thin, allowing characters in the books and those in ‘real life’ to jump in and out of novels.
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Description: Set in 1985 in an alternate London, literature is (refreshingly) so important that you can get punished for forging Byronic verses. Then someone starts kidnapping literary characters . Jane Eyre’s disappearance is particularly traumatic and Special Operative Thursday Next must stop this before it’s too late.
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Description: Thursday Next, who literally jumps into books to do her detective work, must locate a surprise enemy in Poe’s “The Raven” to save her beloved.
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Description: Join Thursday Next as she encounters some of the greatest characters in literature and battles deadly villians who literally leap off the page.
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Description: What’s Thursday doing next? Challenging a renegade fictioneer-and looking for a babysitter.
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Description: SpecOps investigator Next has her hands full trying to persuade her 16-year-old slacker son, Friday, to join the ChronoGuard, which deals with temporal stability.
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Description: All-out Genre war is rumbling, and the BookWorld desperately needs a heroine like Thursday Next. But with the real Thursday apparently retired to the Realworld, the Council of Genres turns to the written Thursday.
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Description: Thursday Next has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to recuperate. But Thursday’s children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention