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Thursday Next: Book 7The Woman Who Died A Lot (2012)
by Jasper Fforde
The Bookworld’s leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday’s children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday’s career... (learn more about this book)
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The Last Dragonslayer: Book 2Song of the Quarkbeast (2011)
by Jasper Fforde
A long time ago magic faded away, leaving behind only yo-yos, the extremely useful compass-pointing-to-North enchantment and the spell that keep bicycles from falling over.
Things are about to change. Magical power is on the rise and King Snodd IV of Hereford has realised that he who... (learn more about this book)
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Thursday Next: Book 6One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (2011)
by Jasper Fforde
It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld.
Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?
All... (learn more about this book)
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Shades of Grey: Book 1Shades of Grey (2010)
The Road to High Saffron
by Jasper Fforde
From the bestselling author of Thursday Next—a brilliant new novel about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors you can see Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, Shades of Grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. In a society... (learn more about this book)
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The Last Dragonslayer: Book 1The Last Dragonslayer (2010)
by Jasper Fforde
In the good old days, magic was indispensable; it could both save a kingdom and clear a clogged drain. But now magic is fading. Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and magic carpets have been reduced to pizza delivery. Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer Strange runs Kazam Mystical Arts... (learn more about this book)
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Thursday Next: Book 5First Among Sequels (2007)
by Jasper Fforde
Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde’s wildly popular series Beloved for his prodigious imagination, his satirical gifts, his literate humor, and sheer silliness, Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since Thursday Next... (learn more about this book)
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Nursery Crimes: Book 2The Fourth Bear (2006)
by Jasper Fforde
Jack Spratt and Mary Mary return in their second adventure from the inimitable Jasper Fforde Five years ago, Viking introduced Jasper Fforde and his upsidedown, inside-out literary crime masterpieces. And as they move from Thursday Next to Jack Spratt’s Nursery Crimes, his audience is... (learn more about this book)
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Nursery Crimes: Book 1The Big Over Easy (2005)
by Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde does it again with a dazzling new series starring Inspector Jack Spratt, head of the Nursery Crime Division Jasper Fforde’s bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over... (learn more about this book)
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Thursday Next: Book 4Something Rotten (2004)
by Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as... (learn more about this book)
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Thursday Next: Book 3The Well of Lost Plots (2003)
by Jasper Fforde
Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband,... (learn more about this book)
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