do you like douglas adams and p.g. wooden house? then you will most likely like next Thursday in the literary world.
whose is next thursday?
thurday next lives in a parallel universe, where england is a republic, with george formby as its first president, elected after the success of operation sea lion (the supposed nazi invasion of britain), occupation and liberation. There is no United Kingdom, and Wales is the independent “Socialist Republic of Wales”. the crimean war is still raging in 1985, russia still has a czar, and the whig party still exists in the house of commons.
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in next thursday’s world, literature is a much more popular medium than in our world, and thursday is a member of so-27, the literary or literary detectives. His work focuses on Swindon and the world of fiction, where he fights against the machinations of the insidious Goliath Corporation, members of the Hades family and other evils at every turn.
thursday next books in order:
Thursday’s upcoming series contains two long story arcs.
first story arc
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- the eyre affair: britain circa 1985: time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the revived pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. england is a virtual police state where an aunt can lose herself (literally) in a poem worth words and forging byronic verse is a punishable offence. all this is business as usual for next Thursday, renowned special operation in literary detection. But when someone starts kidnapping characters from literary works and rips Jane Eyre from the pages of Brontë’s novel, Thursday faces the challenge of her career.
- Lost in a good book — when the love of his life has been eradicated by goliath, everyone’s favorite corrupt multinational, Thursday must retrieve a supposedly vanquished enemy from the pages of “the crow” to rescue him. but poetry is beyond the reach of even the most experienced literary outsider. Enter a pro: the man-hating miss havisham from dickens high expectations. As his new apprentice, Thursday keeps his motives secret while learning the ropes of jurisdiction, where he works as a prose resource agent within the books.
- The Well of Missing Plots — ingenious literary detective bookworld next Thursday definitely needs some downtime. And what better place for a respite than in the hidden depths of the well of lost plots, where all the unpublished books reside? but peace and quiet remain elusive for thursday, who soon discovers that the pit is a veritable linguistic mess, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are sold on the black market, and lousy books, like the one she’s taken . residence in–are discarded for salvage. To make matters worse, a murderer is stalking the jurisdiction staff and it’s up to thursday to save the day.
- something rotten — thursday next returns to swindon from the world of the books accompanied by his son on Friday and none other than the wavering village. But returning to special ops isn’t easy: as fictional outlaw Yorrick Kaine plots for absolute power, the return of Swindon’s patron saint heralds doom, and if that’s not bad enough, the merry wives of Windsor are getting tangled up. with hamlet. can thursday find a clone of shakespeare to stop this hostile takeover? Will she be able to defeat kaine and prevent the world from descending into war? and will she ever find reliable child care?
second story arc
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- first among sequels: next thursday is dealing with a series of problems in the world of books: a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of sherlock holmes and the inexplicable departure of the comedy of the once— hilarious novels by thomas hardy, to name just a few, as she captains the ship’s moral dilemma and faces her worst enemy: herself.
- one of our thursdays is missing — At a time of great unease in the world of books, Next Thursday has disappeared. Now Written Thursday must answer the call, save the world of books, evade capture, and find Real Thursday! With a mechanical butler in tow, and plaid-clad men, as well as her designated love interest in hot pursuit, she must reluctantly agree to journey down the mysterious metaphorical river in search of answers.
- la Woman Who Died a Lot: When her old special ops division is reestablished, Thursday assumes she’s the obvious choice to lead the literary detectives. instead, she’s in charge of the swindon library all-you-can-eat-at-fatso’s, drink not included. but where she goes on Thursday, trouble continues. As the new Chief Librarian contends with 100 percent budget cuts and the ever-evil Jack Schitt, the following kids deal with career setbacks of their own and possible non-existence.