Plongez dans un monde où la littérature devient littérale et où les frontières entre la réalité et la fiction s'estompent. Suivez une protagoniste tenace qui se lance dans des aventures extraordinaires au cœur même des livres. Découvrez des secrets cachés dans des récits classiques et soyez témoin de rebondissements qui défient la réalité. Cette série offre un mélange unique de roman policier, de science-fiction et de méta-narration qui captivera tout lecteur.
Dans le monde de Thursday Next, la littérature fait quasiment office de religion. A tel point qu'une brigade spéciale a dû être créée pour s'occuper d'affaires aussi essentielles que traquer les plagiats, découvrir la paternité des pièces de Shakespeare ou arrêter les revendeurs de faux manuscrits. Mais quand on a un père capable de traverser le temps et un oncle à l'origine des plus folles inventions, on a parfois envie d'un peu plus d'aventure. Alors, lorsque Jane Eyre, l'héroïne du livre fétiche de Thursday, est kidnappée par Achéron Hadès, incarnation du mal en personne, la jeune détective décide de prendre les choses en main et de tout tenter pour sauver le roman de Charlotte Brontë d'une fin certaine... " Au croisement du roman policier et de l'uchronie déjantée, Jasper Fforde signe un ouvrage jubilatoire. " Le Monde des livres.
Thursday Next, détective littéraire et agent des OpSpecs, bénéficie d'un repas bien mérité après être rentrée dans l'intrigue du roman Jane Eyre grâce au portail de la prose et en avoir sauvé l'héroïne. Elle a aussi retrouvé l'homme de ses rêves, Landen, et comme un bonheur n'arrive jamais seul, la voilà enceinte ! Seulement, la corporation Goliath ne l'entend pas de cette oreille, et pour la contraindre à libérer le criminel qu'elle a enfermé dans un poème de Poe, le groupe tout-puissant fait éradiquer son mari de la réalité - il serait mort dans un accident de voiture à l'âge de deux ans Seule Thursday se souvient que Landen a un jour existé... Mais maintenant que le portail de la prose a disparu, la jeune femme va devoir subir un entraînement spécial à la jurifiction - la police interne des livres - avant de pouvoir reprendre ses voyages à l'intérieur des chefs-d'œuvre de la littérature.
Exhausted by her stint as Miss Havisham's apprentice at Jurisfiction, Thursday Next is delighted by a respite in the Character Exchange Program in the Well of Lost Plots, a place filled with linguistic chaos, lousy books, and a murderer.
In this fourth installment, literary detective Thursday Next embarks on a new adventure in a whimsical, literature-obsessed England. The story continues to blend elements of fantasy and mystery, showcasing Fforde's signature wit and creativity as Thursday navigates a world where books and reality intertwine. Fans of the series can expect clever plot twists and engaging characters that explore the power of literature in a unique alternate reality.
Literary sleuth Thursday Next is out to save literature in the fifth installment of Jasper Fforde's wildly popular series Beloved for his prodigious imagination, his satirical gifts, his literate humor, and sheer silliness, Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since Thursday Next first appeared in The Eyre Affair, a genre send-up hailed as an instant classic. Since the no-nonsense literary detective from Swindon made her debut, literature has never been quite the same. Neither have nursery rhymes, for that matter. With two successful books of the Nursery Crime series under his belt, Fforde takes up once again the brilliant adventures of his signature creation in the highly anticipated fifth installment of the Thursday Next series. And it is better than ever. It has been fourteen years since Thursday pegged out at the 1988 SuperHoop, and Friday is now a difficult sixteen year old. However, Thursday's got bigger problems. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinback Falls and his series is stopped in its tracks. And before this can be corrected, Miss Havisham dies suddenly in a car accident, bringing her series to a close as well. When Thursday receives a death threat clearly intended for her written self, she realizes what's going on - there is a serial killer on the loose in the Bookworld. And that's not all: The Goliath Corporation is trying to deregulate book travel. Naturally, Thursday must travel to the outer limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to triumph against increasing odds. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's return is sure to be celebrated by Jasper Fforde's fanatical fans and the critics who have loved him since the beginning.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Ex-detective Thursday Next faces her trickiest assignment yet in the seventh novel of this renowned series, “[a] bibliophile’s Wonderland” (The Plain Dealer). “It’s safe to say that if you enjoy that particularly British, Douglas Adams–style absurd delivery of wry observations, you’ll get a kick out of [The Woman Who Died a Lot].”—New York Journal of Books Thursday Next, the Bookworld’s leading enforcement officer, has been forced into semiretirement following an assassination attempt. When her former SpecOps division is reinstated, she assumes she’s the obvious choice to lead the Literary Detectives. Sadly, our banged-up heroine is no spring chicken, and her old boss has a cushier job in mind: Chief Librarian of the Swindon All-You-Can-Eat-at-Fatso’s Drink Not Included Library. But where Thursday goes, trouble follows. As the new Chief Librarian faces 100 percent budget cuts and trouble from the ever-evil Jack Schitt, the Next children face their own career hiccups—and possible nonexistence. Don’t miss any of Jasper Fforde’s delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels: THE EYRE AFFAIR • LOST IN A GOOD BOOK • THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS • SOMETHING ROTTEN • FIRST AMONG SEQUELS • ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING • THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT
