Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt. She returns home to Swindon for what you'd expect to be a time of recuperation. If only life were that simple. Thursday is faced with an array of family problems — son Friday's lack of focus since his career in the Chronoguard was relegated to a…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: 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,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 625 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 320) Аннотация: A long time ago magic faded away, leaving behind only yo-yos, the extremely useful compass-pointing-to-North enchantment and the spell that keep bicycles from falling over. Things are about to change. Magical power is on the rise and King Snodd IV of Hereford has realised that he who controls magic controls almost anything. One person stands between Snodd and his plans for power and riches beyond…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 033 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 400) Аннотация: Everyone's favourite literary detective, Thursday Next, is back, in the long-awaited follow-up to FIRST AMONG SEQUELS. With the advent of the eReader, and all-out genre war in the Great Library, the Bookworld in turmoil — and needs Thursday. But with the real Thursday Next apparently retired, there's only one left, the written Thursday, who must prove herself once and for all...
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 278 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 448) Аннотация: No one could cheat the Colourman and the colour test. What you got was what you were, forever. Your life, career and social standing decided right there and then, and all worrisome life-uncertainties eradicated forever. You knew who you were, what you would do, where you would go, and what was expected of you. In return, you simply accepted your rung upon the Chromatic ladder, and assiduously…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Thursday Next is back. And this time it's personal... Officially, Literary Detective Thursday Next is off the case. Once a key figure in the BookWorld police force, she is concentrating on her duties as a wife and mother. Or so her husband thinks... Unofficially, Thursday is working as hard as ever — and in this world of dangerously short attention spans, there's no rest for the literate. Can…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: It's Easter in Reading — a bad time for eggs — and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Following the pathologist's careful reconstruction of Humpty's shell, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his Sergeant Mary are soon grappling…
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment. After two rollicking New York Times bestselling adventures through Western literature, resourceful literary detective Thursday Next definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 952 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 384) Аннотация: There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages, dodos are regenerated in home-cloning kits and everyone is deeply disappointed by the ending of 'Jane Eyre'. In this world there are no jet-liners or computers, but there are policemen who can travel across time, a Welsh republic, a great interest in all things literary — and a woman called Thursday Next.…