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Thursday Next Series

Step into a world where literature is literal and the boundaries between reality and fiction blur. Follow a tenacious protagonist as she embarks on extraordinary adventures within the pages of books themselves. Uncover hidden secrets within classic tales and witness reality-bending plot twists. This series offers a unique blend of detective fiction, science fiction, and meta-narrative that will captivate any reader.

One of Our Thursdays is Missing
First Among Sequels
Something Rotten
The Well of Lost Plots. Im Brunnen der Manuskripte, englische Ausgabe
Lost in a Good Book
The Eyre Affair

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  1. 1

    The Eyre Affair

    • 384 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    3.9(118660)Add rating

    There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where Thursday Next is a literary detective without squat, fear, or boyfriend. Thursday is on the trait of the villainous Acheron Hades, who has been kidnapping characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre herself has been plucked from the novel of the same name, and Thursday must find a way into the book to repair the damage. She also has to find time to halt the ongoing Crimean conflict, persuade the man she loves to marry her, rescue her aunt from inside a Wordsworth poem and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare's plays. Aided and abetted by a cast of characters that includes her time-travelling father, Jack Schitt of the all-power Goliath Corporation, a pet dodo named Pickwick and Edward Rochester himself, Thursday embarks on an adventure that will take your breath away. A delight for anyone who has ever wondered where bananas come from or why Leigh Delamere motorway services are so peculiarly named, The Eyre Affair is classic storytelling at its most engrossing. The world will never look the same again...

    The Eyre Affair
  2. 2

    Lost in a Good Book

    4.2(48287)Add rating

    Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed is back to embark on an adventure that begins on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible

    Lost in a Good Book
  3. 3

    The Well of Lost Plots. Im Brunnen der Manuskripte, englische Ausgabe

    4.1(36221)Add rating

    Pursued by a sinister multinational corporation and an evil genius with a penchant for clothes shopping and memory modification, literary detective Thursday Next is on the run. Not an ideal situation considering she's pregnant by her husband who is presently suffering a non-existence problem. Taking refuge in the Well of Lost Plots - the place where all Fiction is created - Thursday ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. But in Thursday's world, trouble is only ever a page away, and when a succession of Jurisfiction agents are killed, only one woman is up to the job of unmasking the villain responsible. Will Thursday ever be able to enjoy the quiet life again, or is she about to lose the plot completely?

    The Well of Lost Plots. Im Brunnen der Manuskripte, englische Ausgabe
  4. 4

    Something Rotten

    • 416 pages
    • 15 hours of reading
    4.2(30602)Add rating

    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 good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard. It's not going to be easy. Thursday's former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares, the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system and the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination. With help from Hamlet, her uncle and time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare?

    Something Rotten
  5. 5

    First Among Sequels

    • 398 pages
    • 14 hours of reading
    4.1(635)Add rating

    Thursday Next has her hands full trying to persuade her 16-year-old son not to sleep away his future. To complicate matters the government has a dangerously high stupidity surplus and the Stiltonista Cheese Mafia are causing trouble in her hometown of Swindon

    First Among Sequels
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  7. 7

    The Woman Who Died a Lot

    • 366 pages
    • 13 hours of reading
    4.2(226)Add rating

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ex-detective Thursday Next faces her trickiest assignment yet in the seventh novel of this renowned series, “[a] bibliophile’s Wonderland” (The Plain Dealer). “It’s safe to say that if you enjoy that particularly British, Douglas Adams–style absurd delivery of wry observations, you’ll get a kick out of [The Woman Who Died a Lot].”—New York Journal of Books Thursday Next, the Bookworld’s leading enforcement officer, has been forced into semiretirement following an assassination attempt. When her former SpecOps division is reinstated, she assumes she’s the obvious choice to lead the Literary Detectives. Sadly, our banged-up heroine is no spring chicken, and her old boss has a cushier job in mind: Chief Librarian of the Swindon All-You-Can-Eat-at-Fatso’s Drink Not Included Library. But where Thursday goes, trouble follows. As the new Chief Librarian faces 100 percent budget cuts and trouble from the ever-evil Jack Schitt, the Next children face their own career hiccups—and possible nonexistence. Don’t miss any of Jasper Fforde’s delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels: THE EYRE AFFAIR • LOST IN A GOOD BOOK • THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS • SOMETHING ROTTEN • FIRST AMONG SEQUELS • ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING • THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT

    The Woman Who Died a Lot