| International Standard Book Number |
9781641296694
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781641296687
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| International Standard Book Number |
1641296682
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
813.6
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| Personal Name |
Fforde, Jasper, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
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| Title Statement |
Dark reading matter / Jasper Fforde.
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| Imprint |
?20
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| Imprint |
New York, NY : Soho Press, Incorporated, [2026]
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| Physical Description |
436 pages : illustrations ; 24 c
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| Series Statement |
The Thursday Next series ; [
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| General Note |
"The last Thursday Next novel"--Cove
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| Summary, Etc. |
"Ex-Literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final fictional adventure, and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are aware of it, too. Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: to disrupt the narrative and make the last Thursday Next novel, 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 H. G. 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 unrealized literary ideas end up. A Gateway to Hell has opened up at Wantage's Shakesmania, the nation's second-worst Shakespeare theme park, and the cozy world of Enid Blyton has been hijacked 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 satisfying conclusion. It's a tall order, but Thursday has several secret weapons: her own adaptability; her husband, Landen; a host of stalwart friends and ultimately the most loyal compatriots she can call upon--her readers"-- Provided by publishe
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Next, Thursday (Fictitious character)
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Women detectives Fictio
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Revenge Fictio
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Imaginary places Fictio
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Characters and characteristics in literature Fictio
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Books and reading Fictio
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Detective and mystery fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Fantasy fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Science fiction.
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| Series Added Entry-Personal Name |
Fforde, Jasper. Thursday Next ; book
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