First Among Sequels: Thursday Next Book 5 - Hardcover

Fforde, Jasper

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0340835753 ISBN 13: 9780340835753

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2007

Synopsis

Fourteen years after Thursday Next pegged out at Superhoop '88, her Jurisfiction job has been downgraded due to a potential conflict of interest, since her previous adventures are now themselves in print. Thursday's time is spent worrying about her teenage son Friday and tutoring new recruits. This being fiction, however, jeopardy is never far away. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinbach falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. Before this can be righted, Miss Marple dies in a narratively inexplicable car accident, bringing her series also to a close. Thursday, receiving a death-threat clearly intended for her written self, realises what is going on - there is a serial killer is loose in the Bookworld. Meanwhile, Goliath have perfected a 22-seater Prose Portal Luxury Coach, and plan on taking literary tourists on a holiday to the works of Jane Austen. Thursday alone realises the true intent of Goliath's unwanted incursions into fiction, but she can't fight all these battles on her own. She must team up with the one person she really can't get along with - the written Thursday Next, currently starring in The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco. But it's no time to be picky. . .

About this title

Review:

'No summaries can do justice to the sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality of the works, nor to their vast repertoire of intricate word-play and puns.' (The Times)

A born wordsmith of effervescent imagination (Christina Hardyment, Independent)

[Fforde's] brand of inspired lunacy truly stands on its own . . . this new book completes his creation of a world of true literary comic genius (Sunday Express on THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS)

'Fforde describes a melange of the mundane and the phantasmagorical that reads like a well edited Harry Potter; FAS is for adults who want sophisticated wit with their fantasy, but who still possess an appreciation for the intricate world-building of a well-imagined children's novel... But the unashamedly bookish will find it satisfying: what dedicated reader would not laugh at the suggestion of a parallel universe in which Jude the Obscure is renowned as a comic novel?' (New Statesman)

"I always experience a spasm of warmth when I see Jasper Fforde's name in the lists, or, as is currently the case, on Waterstone's '3 for 2' tables. Go, Jasper, go: I think. It's not just that the creator of Thursday Next (sleuth extraordinaire) and laureate of Swindon town ('Jewel of the M4') is the wittiest novelist around - and wit is not in over-supply in popular fiction. Jasper is the only novelist ever to acknowledge me as inspirational." (John Sutherland, Telegraph)

Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original (Sunday Express on LOST IN A GOOD BOOK)

Ingenious - I'll watch Jasper Fforde nervously (Terry Pratchett on THE EYRE AFFAIR)

Jasper Fforde's imagination is a literary volcano in full spate . . . SOMETHING ROTTEN is arguably Fforde's best book yet . . . Fforde has a knack of creating memorable characters whom the reader greets like long-lost friends . . . Buy it; chuckles guaranteed. (Independent)

The pleasure in Fforde's quirkily brilliant books is that they can be enjoyed on so many levels by all ages. (Sydney Morning Herald)

Book Description:

Everyone's favourite Book World heroine, Thursday Next, is back in Jasper Fforde's new bestseller

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0340835753
• ISBN 13: 9780340835753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 406