Author: Jasper Fforde

First among sequels – Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde has thrilled readers everywhere with his gloriously outlandish novels in the Thursday Next and Nursery Crime series. And with another genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainmentis Thursday Next: First Among Sequels, Fforde’s famous literary detective is once again ready to make the world safe for fiction. Thursday Next is grappling with a host of problems in BookWorld: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes, and the...

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One of our Thursdays is missing – Jasper Fforde

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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 capture, and...

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The woman who died a lot – Jasper Fforde

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The Bookworld’s leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt, returning home to Swindon and her family to recuperate. But Thursday’s children have problems that demand she become a mother of invention: Friday’s career struggles in the Chronoguard, where he is relegated to a might-have-been; Tuesday’s trouble perfecting the Anti-Smote shield, needed in time to thwart an angry Deity’s promise to wipe Swindon off the face of...

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Perdida en un buen libro – Jasper Fforde

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Tras recuperar la integridad de Jane Eyre y vencer al malvado Acheron Hades, los problemas continúan para la detective literaria Thursday Next: los cambios en el argumento de Jane Eyre hacen que la Jurisficción la persiga por haber alterado un clásico, el tío Mycroft se ha jubilado pero sigue haciendo peligrosos inventos, su flamante marido Landen ha sido «retrosustraído» y Thursday sigue perdiéndose en todo tipo de libros, desde. El proceso de Kafka, hasta Sentido y sensibilidadde Austen, pasando por Grandes...

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El caso Jane Eyre – Jasper Fforde

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En el mundo de Thursday Next la literatura es casi como una religión. Se ha creado una brigada especial que se ocupa de asuntos tan esenciales como perseguir los plagios, descubrir al verdadero autor de las obras de Shakespeare o detener a los vendedores de falsos manuscritos. Pero ser detective literaria teniendo a un padre cronopolicía y a un tío capaz de las más locas invenciones no siempre es una ayuda. Y aún menos...

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