Dark Reading Matter
Language: English
Published by Hodder & Stoughton, 2026
Series: Book 8 of 8 - Thursday Next
- First Edition
- Signed
- Hardcover
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First edition, first printing UK hardback, 2026 Hodder & Stoughton. The book is in as new condition, the dustjacket is in as new Condition. Not price clipped. Signed by the author. Postcard laid in. The last Thursday Next novel.
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- Title
- Dark Reading Matter
- Author
- Fforde, Jasper
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- As new
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Signed
- Signed by Author(s)
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 152939368X
- ISBN 13
- 9781529393682
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 41 grams
- Dimensions
- 13.2 centimeters width by 20.4 centimeters height by 1.9 centimeters depth
- Series
- Book 8 of 8: Thursday Next
- Seller catalogs
- Signed First Editions
The final novel in the highly acclaimed and beloved Thursday Next series. Will Thursday find her happy ending?
Swindon-based Literary Detective Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final adventure: 'Dark Reading Matter' and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are too. Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: To disrupt the narrative and make Dark Reading Matter not just unreadable but unpublishable. Thursday can't let that happen and needs to use all her guile and narrative trickery to unmask the antagonists and guide the series to a satisfactory conclusion.
It won't be easy. The Martians have broken out of their HG Wells novel and threaten both the real world and the Bookworld. Agents from a higher reality want unfettered access to the Dark Reading Matter, the realm where deleted books and unrealised literary ideas end up. A Gateway to Hell has opened up at Wantage's Shakesmania, the nation's second to worst Shakespeare theme park and the cosy world of Enid Blyton has been hi-jacked by Ultra Right Wing Nationalists. With Reality Field Distortion experiments going haywire, a partially redacted donkey, a Bookworld on the brink of losing its imaginative energy to Big Tech and a murderous stamp collector with Philaticide on their mind, Thursday has to navigate a tightrope of borderline unusable narrative devices to bring the series to a satisfactory conclusion.
It's a tall order, but Thursday has a secret weapon: Her own adaptability, her husband Landen, a host of stalwart friends and ultimately the most loyal compatriots she can call upon: Her readers.
'Hugely funny and gloriously imaginative' Daily Express
'Fans of the late Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' Herald
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About the Author
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,
The Constant Rabbit and The Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky. Fforde lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales.
Jasper is @jasperfforde on Instagram, Threads and Substack. Visit his website at jasperfforde.com.
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