Lost in a good book : a novel

Fforde, Jasper.

Book 2002

Her adventures as a renowned Special Operative in literary detection have left Thursday Next yearning for a rest. But when the love of her life is eradicated by the corrupt multinational Goliath Corporation, Thursday must bite the bullet and moonlight as a Prose Resource Operative in the secret world of Jurisfiction, the police force inside books. There she is apprenticed to Miss Havisham, the famous man-hater from Dickens's Great Expectations, w...

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Manhunts

Missing persons

Mysterious disappearances

Newlyweds

Next, Thursday (Fictitious character) Fiction

Swindon, England Europe

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Alternative history Fiction Humorous fiction Magic realism Mystery British Detective, Professional Literary Science fiction

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ISBN:

9780340824672
9780340733578
9780142004036
0965752615
0670031909
034082283X
0340733578
0142004030

Description:

371 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:

Various publishers
Locus Poll Award for Best Fantasy Novel (6th place) 2003
Independent Booksellers Association's Dilys Award winner 2004

Contents:

The Adrian Lush Show
The Special Operations Network
Cardenio unbound
Five coincidences, seven Irma Cohens and one confused Neanderthal
Vanishing hitch-hikers
Five coincidences, seven Irma Cohens and one confused Thursday Next
Family
White Horse, Uffington, picnics for the use of
Mr. Stiggins and SO-1
The more things stay the same...
A lack of differences
Granny Next
At home with my memories
Mount Pleasant
The Gravitube
Curiouser & curiouser in Osaka
Interview with the cat
Miss Havisham
The trial of Fraulein N
Bargain books
Yorricke Kaine
Les arts modernes de Swindon, '85
Travels with my father
Fun with Spike
Performance-related pay, Miles Hawke & Norland Park
Roll-call at Jurisfiction
Assignment one: bloophole in Great Expectations
Landen and Joffy again
The Raven
Rescued
Cardenio rebound
Dream topping
The end of life as we know it
The dawn of life as we know it
The well of lost plots

Control Number:

189045

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