Jasper Fforde
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first novel in the renowned Thursday Next series, which “combines elements of Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (The Wall Street Journal).
“A literary wonderland [that] recalls Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker series [and] the works of Lewis Carroll.”—USA Today
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“A literary wonderland [that] recalls Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker series [and] the works of Lewis Carroll.”—USA Today
Meet...
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tired of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction, literary sleuth Thursday Next packs up her son, Friday, to return to Swindon, accompanied by the Danish prince Hamlet, only to find herself coping with outlaw fictioneer Yorrick Kaine.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection in a time-altered Great Britain in which messing with the classics is a punishable offense, sets out to find out who drowned her husband of a month thirty-eight years ago while interacting with classic literature.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Kazam volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Trolls have invaded, and the Ununited Kingdoms have fallen to their murderous rampage. Assisting them is The Mighty Shandar, the most powerful sorcerer the world has ever seen. Their victory seems complete. Or is it? Orphan Jennifer Strange, Court Mystician and ex-Dragonslayer, plans a counter-attack with only a few resources to hand: An uncrowned Queen with no nation; Two fussy dragons, two sorcerers, and no magic; A dozen spoiled princesses;...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family,...
7) Early riser
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Imagine a world where all humans must hibernate through a brutally cold winter, their bodies dangerously close to death as they enter an ultra-low metabolic state of utterly dreamless sleep. All humans, that is, apart from the Winter Consuls, a group of officers who diligently watch over the vulnerable sleeping citizens. Charlie Worthing is a novice, chosen by a highflying hero Winter Consul to accompany him to the Douzey, a remote sector in the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A new stand-alone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Early Riser and the Thursday Next series England, 2022. There are 1.2 million human-size rabbits living in the UK. They can walk, talk, drive cars, and they like to read Voltaire, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphizing Event fifty-five years before. A family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cozy little village in Middle England where life revolves around...
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 3
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. After two rollicking New York Times-bestselling adventures through the Western literary canon, Britain's Prose Resource Operative was literally and literaturally at her wit's end -- not to mention pregnant. So what could be more welcome than a restful stint in the Character Exchange Program down in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots? But a vacation remains elusive. In no time, Thursday discovers...
10) Shades of grey
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of "Thursday Next" comes a brilliant new novel--part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller--about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors one can see.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 7
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. After returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate, she finds that her children have problems that need her attention.
Author
Series
Chronicles of Kazam volume 2
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A long time ago magic faded away, leaving behind only yo-yos, the extremely useful compass-pointing-to-North enchantment and the spell that keep bicycles from falling over. Things are about to change. Magical power is on the rise and King Snodd IV of Hereford has realised that he who controls magic controls almost anything. One person stands between Snodd and his plans for power and riches beyond the wildest dreams of avarice. Meet Jennifer Strange,...
Author
Series
Chronicles of Kazam volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
"Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big Magic"--
Author
Series
Chronicles of Kazam volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange faces the impossible when the mighty Shandar emerges from his preserved state and presents her with a task that sends her and her companions on a journey from which they may never return.
Author
Series
Thursday Next novels volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister?
Author
Pub. Date
p2006
Language
English
Description
The psychopathic Gingerbreadman is leaving bodies in his wake, but Jack Spratt and Mary Mary can't investigate. They have to track down reporter Henrietta "Goldy" Hatchett, last seen alive by the Three Bears (but was there a fourth?)-- Library Journal.