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Jasper Fforde is the bestselling author of the brilliant Thursday Next series, the Shades of Grey series, and The Last Dragonslayer series, among others. As the Thursday Next series comes to an end, he’s coming back to visit us and talk about the final part of the literary saga!Join us at 7.00pm on Wednesday 14th October to hear him talk about his latest book. There’ll be an opportunity to ask your questions and get your books signed as well!
You won’t get a physical ticket, we’ll add your name to our list and let you in on the night!
Dark Reading Matter – Jasper Fforde
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 and guide the series to a satisfactory conclusion. 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 Shakesmania, the nation’s second to worst Shakespeare theme park and the cosy world of Enid Blyton has been hi-jacked by Ultra Right Wing Nationalists.
With Reality Field Distortion experiments going haywire, a partially redacted donkey, a Bookworld on the brink of losing its imaginative energy to Big Tech and a murderous stamp collector with Philaticide on their mind, Thursday has to navigate a tightrope of borderline unusable narrative devices to bring the series to a satisfactory conclusion. It’s a tall order, but Thursday has a secret weapon: Her own adaptability, her husband Landen, a host of stalwart friends and ultimately the most loyal compatriots she can call upon: Her readers.
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