The Eyre Affair_ A Novel - Jasper Fforde [605]
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First
Among
Sequels
The Danverclone seemed to hang
in the air for a moment before a large wave
caught her and she was left behind the
rapidly moving taxi.
THURSDAY NEXT
IN
First
Among
Sequels
A NOVEL
Jasper Fforde
VIKING
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Copyright © Jasper Fforde, 2007
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Illustrations by Bill Mudron and Dylan Meconis
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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Fforde, Jasper.
Thursday next in first among sequels / Jasper Fforde.
p. cm.
ISBN: 1-101-15867-0
1. Next, Thursday (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Characters
and characteristics in literature—Fiction. 3. Women detectives—Great Britain—Fiction.
4. Books and reading—Fiction. 5. Time travel—Fiction.
I. Title. II. Title: First among sequels.
PR6106.F67T475 2007
823' .914—dc22 2007014615
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For Cressida,
the bestest sister in the world
Contents
Author’s Note
1. Breakfast
2. Mum and Polly and Mycroft
3. Acme Carpets
4. Jurisfiction
5. Training Day
6. The Great Library and Council of Genres
7. A Probe Inside Pinocchio
8. Julian Sparkle
9. Core Containment
10. The Well of Lost Plots
11. The Refit
12. Kids
14. The ChronoGuard
15. Home Again
16. Cheese
17. Breakfast Again
18. Aornis Hades
19. The Goliath Corporation
20. The Austen Rover
21. Holmes
22. Next
23. The Piano Problem
24. Policy Directives
25. The Paragon
26. Thursday Next
27. Bound to the Outland
28. The Discreet Charm of the Outland
29. Time Out of Joint
30. Now Is