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There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where Wales is a Soviet Republic, dodos are available in home-cloning kits, the Crimean war is 131 years old and the ending of 'Jane Eyre' is less than satisfactory . . .
In "this" 1985, normalcy is a rare commodity: aunts are lost inside Wordsworth poems, militant Baconians heckle performances of 'Hamlet', and forging Byronic verse carries a custodial sentence. For literary detective Thursday Next, it's very much business as usual.
Thursday - her tenacity as remarkable as her love life is disastrous - is frantically pursuing the world's third most evil man who has kidnapped Jane Eyre in a dastardly display of literary vandalism. With its narrator missing, half the book is blank and the world holds its breath. As if that wasn't enough, Thursday also has to assist her time-traveling father, marry the man she loves, figure out who really wrote Shakespeare's plays, bring peace to the Crimea - and finally discover the truth about bananas . . .
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| ISBN 13: | 9780340733561 |
| ISBN 10: | 034073356X |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 384 |
| Dimensions: | 198 x 129mm |
| Released: | 01/06/2012 |
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Jasper Fforde (born in London on 11 January 1961) is an English novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written another series, the Nursery Crime Stories series.
Fforde was born on 11 January, 1961. His father was John Standish Fforde, the 24th Chief Cashier for the Bank of England (whose signature used to appear on sterling banknotes). [1] He is the cousin of the author Katie Fforde.
Fforde was educated at the progressive Dartington Hall School, and his early career was spent as a focus puller in the film industry, where he worked on a number of films, including Quills, GoldenEye, and Entrapment
Fforde published his first novel, The Eyre Affair, in 2001.
His published books include a series of novels starring the literary detective Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, and First Among Sequels. The Eyre Affair had received 76 publisher rejections before its eventual acceptance for publication.[3] Fforde won the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction in 2004 for The Well of Lost Plots.[4]
The Big Over Easy (2005), which shares a similar setting with the Next novels, is a reworking of his first written novel, which initially failed to find a publisher. Its original title was Who Killed Humpty Dumpty?[5], and later had the working title of Nursery Crime, which is the title now used to refer to this series of books. These books describe the investigations of DCI Jack Spratt. The follow-up to The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear, was published in July 2006 and focuses on Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Fforde's books are noted for their profusion of literary allusions and wordplay, tightly scripted plots, and playfulness with the conventions of traditional genres. His works usually contain various elements of metafiction, parody, and fantasy. None of his books has a chapter 13.
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