Dark Reading Matter

Books

Will literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next find her happy ending? The outrageous, heartfelt conclusion to Jasper Fforde's New York Times bestselling series, which began twenty-five years ago with The Eyre Affair, will have you, Dear Reader, laughing out loud. Swindon-based Literary Detective Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final adventure, Dark Reading Matter, and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are too. Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: to disrupt the narrative and make Dark Reading Matter not just unreadable but unpublishable. Thursday can't let that happen and needs to use all her guile and narrative trickery to unmask the antagonists. It won't be easy. The Martians have broken out of their HG Wells novel and threaten both the real world and the Bookworld. Agents from a higher reality want unfettered access to the Dark Reading Matter, the realm where deleted books and unrealised literary ideas end up. A Gateway to Hell has opened up at Wantage's ...