JASPER FFORDE

Everyones favourite Book World heroine, Thursday Next, returns in her fifth adventure - by Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde.

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 Jurisficcion la persiga por haber alterado un clasico; el tio Mycroft se ha jubilado pero sigue haciendo peligrosos inventos; Landen, su flamante marido, ha sido retrosustraido, y ella misma sigue perdiendose en todo tipo de libros, desde El proceso de Kafka, hasta Sentido y sensibilidad de Austen pasando por Grandes esperanzas de Dickens...

There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is disappointed by the ending of Jane Eyre. But in this world there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic - and a woman called Thursday Next.

The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home to Swindon for what you'd expect to be a time of recuperation. If only life were that simple. Thursday is faced with an array of family problems - son Friday's lack of focus since his career in the Chronoguard was relegated to a might-have-been, daughter Tuesday's difficulty perfecting the Anti-Smote shield needed to thwart an angry Deity's promise to wipe Swindon off the face of the earth, and Jenny, who doesn't exist. And that's not all. With Goliath attempting to replace Thursday at every opportunity with synthetic Thursdays, the prediction that Friday's Destiny-Aware colleagues will die in mysterious circumstances, and a looming meteorite that could destroy all human life on earth, Thursday's retirement is going to be anything but easy.

Thursday Next ist wieder da - und das in neuer Ausstattung! Thursday Next betrügt ihren Mann. Und das nicht erst seit gestern, sondern schon seit vierzehn Jahren! Als mehr oder weniger glückliche Mutter von Friday, Tuesday und Jenny lebt sie mit ihrem geliebten Ehemann Landen zusammen und geht auch jeden Morgen zur Tarnfirma Acme-Carpets, um die schöne Stadt Swindon mit Teppichen und Parkett zu versorgen. In Wirklichkeit ist Thursday natürlich weiter Geheimagentin für SpecOps und verschwindet regelmäßig in die BuchWelt, in der sie jetzt auch Lehrlinge ausbilden muss. Ganz zu schweigen vom lebhaften Käseschmuggel, mit dem sie die kümmerlichen Finanzen der Firma aufzumöbeln versucht. Von alledem darf ihre Familie nichts wissen. Dass diese Täuschungsmanöver auf Dauer nicht gutgehen können, liegt auf der Hand ... Der 5. Band der Reihe!

Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since the character of literary sleuth Thursday Next first appeared. Now, in the fifth installment of this popular series, Fforde blends elements of mystery, campy science fiction and screwball fantasy. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's quest to save literature unites the author's prodigious imagination, satirical gifts, literate humor, and sheer silliness.

La aventura más loca y surrealista está servida. Como siempre en Jasper Fforde, "las barreras entre la realidad y la ficción son más poderosas de lo que imaginamos", y así se descubre cuando Thursday Next encuentra el insondable Pozo de las Tramas Perdidas. En el mundo de Thursday Next, la literatura es casi como una religion. 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 defender a los vendedores de falsos manuscritos. Pero para ser detective literaria, el hecho de tener a un padre cronopolicia y a un tio capaz de las mas locas invenciones no siempre constituye una ayuda. Tras recuperar la integridad de Jane Eyre y vencer al malvado Acheron Hades, los problemas continuan para la detective literaria Thursday Next: debido a los cambios producidos en el argumento de Jane Eyre, Jurisdiccion la persigue por haber alterado un clasico, esta embarazada aunque su marido ha sido "retrosustraido" y la hermana de Hades lo persigue. Thursday se esconde en la Gran Biblioteca (un piso por cada letra del alfabeto) cuyo sotano mas profundo es, precisamente, el Pozo de las Tramas Perdidas. Escondida en una mala no

Con solo quince años, Jennifer Strange es la precoz directora de Kazam, una agencia de colocación para magos y adivinos que está al borde de la bancarrota, ya que el trabajo es escaso y poseer el don de hacer sortilegios parece no importar a nadie; antes gozaban de los favores de los reyes y ahora, los brujos desatascan tuberias y reparan instalaciones electricas. Jennifer, huerfana y criada en un convento, debe tratar dia tras dia con todo tipo de magos, especialmente los mas egocentricos y quisquillosos. Sin embargo, algo esta cambiando. Algunos adivinos empiezan a tener premoniciones acerca de un ultimo dragon, y en el ambiente se intuye un nuevo aliento: la llegada de una magia extraordinaria, al tiempo que el nombre de Jennifer Strange comienza a habitar los sueños de los magos.

The fourth book in the ingenious Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde.Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard. It''''s not going to be easy. Thursday''''s former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares, the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system and the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination. With help from Hamlet, her uncle and time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare?

Peter Knox lives quietly in one of those small country villages that's up for the Village Garden of the Year award. Until Doc and Constance Rabbit move in next door, upsetting the locals (many of them members of governing political party United Kingdom Against Rabbit Population), complicating Peter's job as a Rabbit Spotter, and forcing him to take a stand, moving from unconscious leporiphobe to active supporter of the UK's amiable and peaceful population of anthropomorphised rabbits.

The final instalment of the Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, demonstrating that with a small band of committed followers, a large tin of resolve and steely determination, almost anything can be achieved . . .Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekick and fellow Orphan Tiger Prawns have been driven to the tip of the UnUnited Kingdoms - Cornwall - by the invasion of the Trolls. Their one defence is a six-foot-wide trench full of buttons, something which the Trolls find unaccountably terrifying (it's their clickiness). Worse than being eaten by Trolls is the prospect of the Mighty Shandar requisitioning the Quarkbeast and using him to achieve supreme power and domination - an ambition that has been four hundred years in the planning and which will ultimately leave the Earth a cold cinder, devoid of all life.Nothing has ever looked so bleak, but Jennifer, assisted by a renegade vegan Troll, a bunch of misfit sorcerers, the Princess (or is she now the ruler?) of the UnUnited (or are they now United?) Kingdoms, and Tiger, must find a way to vanquish the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, and along the way discover the truth about her parents, herself, and what is in the locked glovebox of her VW Beetle . . .

The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. Despite the success of the Humpty Dumpty investigation, the well publicised failure to prevent Red Riding-Hood and her Gran being eaten once again plunges the Nursery Crime Division into controversy.Enforced non-involvement with the Gingerbreadman hunt looks to be frustrating until a chance encounter at the oddly familiar Deja-Vu Club leads them onto the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta 'Goldy' Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Toad. The last witnesses to see her alive were The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. But all is not what it seems.Are the unexplained explosions around the globe somehow related to missing nuclear scientist Angus McGuffin? Is cucumber-growing really that dangerous? Why are National Security involved? But most important of all: How could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time?

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