JASPER FFORDE

Thursday Next ist wieder da - und das in neuer Ausstattung! Thursday Next betrügt ihren Mann. Und das nicht erst seit gestern, sondern schon seit vierzehn Jahren! Als mehr oder weniger glückliche Mutter von Friday, Tuesday und Jenny lebt sie mit ihrem geliebten Ehemann Landen zusammen und geht auch jeden Morgen zur Tarnfirma Acme-Carpets, um die schöne Stadt Swindon mit Teppichen und Parkett zu versorgen. In Wirklichkeit ist Thursday natürlich weiter Geheimagentin für SpecOps und verschwindet regelmäßig in die BuchWelt, in der sie jetzt auch Lehrlinge ausbilden muss. Ganz zu schweigen vom lebhaften Käseschmuggel, mit dem sie die kümmerlichen Finanzen der Firma aufzumöbeln versucht. Von alledem darf ihre Familie nichts wissen. Dass diese Täuschungsmanöver auf Dauer nicht gutgehen können, liegt auf der Hand ... Der 5. Band der Reihe!

The new standalone novel from Number 1 bestselling author Jasper Fforde. Every Winter, the human population hibernates. During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity

Jasper Fforde has delighted book lovers since the character of literary sleuth Thursday Next first appeared. Now, in the fifth installment of this popular series, Fforde blends elements of mystery, campy science fiction and screwball fantasy. Packed with word play, bizarre and entertaining subplots, and old-fashioned suspense, Thursday's quest to save literature unites the author's prodigious imagination, satirical gifts, literate humor, and sheer silliness.

The inimitable Jasper Fforde gives readers another delightful mash-up of detective fiction and nursery rhyme, returning to those mean streets where no character is innocent. The Gingerbreadman—sadist, psychopath, cookie—is on the loose in Reading, but that's not who Detective Jack Spratt and Sergeant Mary Mary are after. Instead, they've been demoted to searching for missing journalist "Goldy" Hatchett. The last witnesses to see her alive were the reclusive Three Bears, and right away Spratt senses something furry—uh, funny—about their story, starting with the porridge. The Fourth Bear is a delirious new romp from our most irrepressible fabulist.

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed, is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep. It seems that Landen, her husband of four weeks, actually drowned in an accident when he was two years old. Someone, somewhere, sometime, is responsible. The sinister Goliath Corporation wants its operative Jack Schitt out of the poem in which Thursday trapped him, and it will do almost anything to achieve this - but bribing the ChronoGuard? Is that possible? Having barely caught her breath after THE EYRE AFFAIR, Thursday must battle corrupt politicians, try to save the world from extinction, and help the Neanderthals to species self-determination. Mastadon migrations, journeys into Just William, a chance meeting with the Flopsy Bunnies, and violent life-and-death struggles in the summer sales are all part of a greater plan.But whose? and why?

The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. Despite the success of the Humpty Dumpty investigation, the well publicised failure to prevent Red Riding-Hood and her Gran being eaten once again plunges the Nursery Crime Division into controversy. Enforced non-involvement with the Gingerbreadman hunt looks to be frustrating until a chance encounter at the oddly familiar Deja-Vu Club leads them onto the hunt for missing journalist Henrietta 'Goldy' Hatchett, star reporter for The Daily Toad. The last witnesses to see her alive were The Three Bears, comfortably living out a life of rural solitude in Andersen's wood. But all is not what it seems. Are the unexplained explosions around the globe somehow related to missing nuclear scientist Angus McGuffin? Is cucumber-growing really that dangerous? Why are National Security involved? But most important of all: How could the bears' porridge be at such disparate temperatures when they were poured at the same time?

Peter Knox lives quietly in one of those small country villages that's up for the Village Garden of the Year award. Until Doc and Constance Rabbit move in next door, upsetting the locals (many of them members of governing political party United Kingdom Against Rabbit Population), complicating Peter's job as a Rabbit Spotter, and forcing him to take a stand, moving from unconscious leporiphobe to active supporter of the UK's amiable and peaceful population of anthropomorphised rabbits.

En el mundo de Thursday Next la literatura es casi como una religión. Se ha creado una brigada especial que se ocupa de asuntos tan esenciales como perseguir los plagios, descubrir al verdadero autor de las obras de Shakespeare o detener a los vendedores de falsos manuscritos. Pero ser detective literaria teniendo a un padre cronopolicia y a un tio capaz de las mas locasl invenciones no siempre es una ayuda.