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Thursday Next, Fiction, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), Crime & mystery, Adventure
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Hodder Paperbacks
- Paperback Jul 1, 2008 | 9780340752029 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jan 22, 2015 | 9781473615243 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 18, 2008 | 9781844568871 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Jul 1, 2008 | 9780340752029 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jan 22, 2015 | 9781473615243 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 18, 2008 | 9781844568871 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Hodder & Stoughton
- Paperback Jul 1, 2008 | 9780340752029 | RRP $22.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Jan 22, 2015 | 9781473615243 | RRP $39.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Sep 18, 2008 | 9781844568871 | RRP $11.99 Buy Now
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Everyone's favourite BookWorld heroine, Thursday Next, is back.
Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job policing the fictional characters of the BookWorld has been downgraded since her previous escapades are now themselves in print.
However, a pressing threat may call her back into action: first Sherlock Holmes and then Miss Marple are found dead, stopping their series in their tracks. When Thursdays written self also receives a death threat, it becomes clear that a serial killer is on the loose.
Meanwhile, the Goliath Corporation plan on taking literary tourists on holiday in the novels of Jane Austen. Thursday alone realizes the true intent of Goliaths unwanted incursions into fiction, but she cant fight all these battles on her own. She must team up with the one person she cant really get along with: the written Thursday Next.
Praise for First Among Sequels: Thursday Next Book 5
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Once you read one - you'll be hooked. - David Baldacci
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Fforde's books are more than just an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted. They have empathetic heroes and heroines who nearly make terrible mistakes and suitably dastardly villains who do. They also have more twists and turns than Christie, and are embellished with the rich details of Dickens or Pratchett - Independent
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A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb - Daily Mail
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Fforde is a master entertainer, and a wordsmith of dexterous genius. - Scotsman
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Fans of the late Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde - Herald
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Times bestseller list with The Eyre Affair in 2001. Since then he has written another fifteen novels, including the Number One Sunday Times bestseller One of our Thursdays is Missing, and the Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky.
Fforde lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales.
Visit Jasper's website, www.jasperfforde.com, find him on Facebook, www.facebook.com/jasperffordebooks, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasperfforde.
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