First Among Sequels

Fforde, Jasper

ISBN 10: 0340835753 / ISBN 13: 9780340835753

Published by Hodder & Stoughton, London, 2007

About this Item

1st ptg., 8vo, full red "cloth", 5th in the Thursday Next series. Signed by the author on the title page, "Tricks of the Trade Revealed" postcard #7 laid in, showing Fforde and his clones manically signing books. Fine in fine, unclipped dj (and yes, the appearance of wear and crumpled edges is printed on the dj). Signed by the author.

Seller Inventory # 31164

Bibliographic Details

• Title: First Among Sequels
• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, London
• Publication Date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0340835753
• ISBN 13: 9780340835753
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

About this title

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 the Author

Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring out of the window and chewing the end of a pencil. He lives and works in Wales and has a passion for aviation.