We are aware that this is not directly Brontë-related, but since many Brontëites got hooked up on Jasper Fforde thanks to
The Eyre Affair, we thought we'd make some (more) room for
the return of Thursday Next, which now has a release date and a synopsis!
First Among Sequels
It is fourteen years since Thursday Next pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and the Special Operations Network has been disbanded. Using Swindon's Acme Carpets as a front, Thursday and her colleagues Bowden, Stig and Spike continue their same professions, but illegally.
Of course, this front is itself a front for Thursday's continued work at Jurisfiction, the Policing agency within the bookworld, and she is soon grappling with a recalcitrant new apprentice, an inter-genre war or two, and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy books.
As the Council of Genres decree that making books interactive will boost flagging readership levels and Goliath attempt to perfect a trans-fictional tourist coach, Thursday find herself in the onerous position of having to side with the enemy to destroy a greater evil that threatens the very fabric of the reading experience.
With Aornis Hades once again on the prowl, an idle sixteen-year-old son who would rather sleep in than save the world from the end of time, a government with a dangerously high stupidity surplus and the Swindon Stiltonistas trying to muscle in on her cheese-smuggling business, Thursday must once again travel to the very outer limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to triumph against increasing odds.
Published on the 5th July in the UK and the 23rd July 2007 in the USA.
(Australia and Canada dates to be announced)
As usual, we can't wait!
We are aware that this is not directly Brontë-related, but since many Brontëites got hooked up on Jasper Fforde thanks to The Eyre Affair, we thought we'd make some (more) room for the return of Thursday Next, which now has a release date and a synopsis!
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