Thursday Next novels

Author:
Fforde, Jasper
 
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Star rating for The Eyre affair
Series Volume:
1.
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, tries to stop the world's Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature.
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Star rating for Lost in a good book
Series Volume:
2.
Description:
In order to rescue the love of her life from the corrupt multinational Goliath, Thursday seeks out a believed-vanquished enemy from the pages of "The Raven" and finds unexpected assistance from Miss Havisham of "Great Expectations."
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Star rating for The well of lost plots
Series Volume:
3.
Description:
Exhausted by her stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next is delighted by a respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, and a murderer.
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Star rating for Something rotten
Series Volume:
4.
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
"Detective Thursday Next has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. But returning to SpecOps is no snap--as outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon's patron saint foretells doom, and if that isn't bad enough, back in the Book World The Merry Wives of Windsor...
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Star rating for Thursday Next in first among sequels
Series Volume:
5.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
Description:
Fourteen years after the 1988 SuperHoop, Thursday finds herself entangled in cases involving the murders of Sherlock Holmes and Miss Marple before receiving a death threat of her own.
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Star rating for One of our Thursdays is missing
Series Volume:
6.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
Description:
Dazzlingly funny and imaginative, Jasper Fforde's books have won him the affection of readers, reviewers, and-dare we say it-booksellers alike. Fans can breathe a sigh of relief because Thursday Next - or at least one of her - is back. At a time of great unrest in the BookWorld, only the ace literary detective can avert a devastating Genre War - thing is, Thursday has vanished. Now the written Thursday must answer the call, save the Bookworld, evade...
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Star rating for The woman who died a lot
Series Volume:
7.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
Description:
Forced into semi-retirement after an assassination attempt, Thursday Next finds her recuperation challenged by the personal and professional struggles of her children and Goliath's constant attempts to replace her with synthetic duplicates.