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"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"--.
Thursday Next has her hands full trying to persuade her 16-year-old son not to sleep away his future. To complicate matters the government has a dangerously high stupidity surplus and the Stiltonista Cheese Mafia are causing trouble in her hometown of Swindon.
"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 Col...
"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 Inexplicabl...
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.
Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, searches for Jane Eyre when a madman who murders literary characters plucks her from the Brontë novel.
B1-7g. Then the magic started fading away. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for soothsayers and sorcerers. But work is drying up. Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and even magic carpets are reduced to pizza delivery. So it's a surprise when...
"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 w...
Thursday Next means business. Literary detective Thursday Next is on a mission--and it's not just a mission to save the planet. If only life were that simple... Unemployed following an international cheese-smuggling scandal, our favourite cultural crime-fighter is faced with a wo...
In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government, and even the largest spell could be woven without filling in magic release form B1-7g. Then the magic started fading away. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for soothsayers and s...
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The Bookworld's leading enforcement officer, Thursday Next, has been forced into semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. When Thursday's former SpecOps division is reinstated, she assumes she's the obvious choice to lead the Literary Detectives. But our banged-up hero...
Nursery celebrity Humpty van Dumpty is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant Mary Mary of the Nursery Crime Division investigate their first case together, discovering a sinister plot involving cross-bo...
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 Operativ...