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The Mighty Shandar, the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, returns to the Ununited Kingdoms. Clearly, he didn't solve the Dragon Problem, and must return his fee: eighteen dray-weights of gold. <BR><BR>But the Mighty Shandar doesn't do refunds, and vows to eliminate the dragons - unless sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekicks from the Kazam house of enchantment can bring him the legendary jewel, The Eye of Zoltar.<BR><BR>The only thing that stands in their way is a perilous journey with a 50% Fatality Index - through the Cambrian Empire to the Leviathan Graveyard, at the top of the deadly Cadair Idris mountain. And it's a quest that sees Jennifer fighting not just for her life, but for everything she knows and loves . . .

Es läuft gut für Eddie Russett: Seine Rotsicht ist exzellent, er wird mit etwas Glück auf der Farbskala nach oben heiraten, und sein Leben plätschert angenehm ereignislos dahin - bis zu dem Tag, an dem er sich unrettbar verliebt. Denn Jane ist nicht nur geheimnisvoll und wunderbar stupsnasig, sie ist auch komplett farbenblind und gehört damit der gesellschaftlichen Unterschicht an: eine Graue! Jane hebt Eddies geordnete Welt aus den Angeln: Plötzlich hat er einflussreiche Feinde, wird mit unbequemen Wahrheiten konfrontiert, und zu allem Überfluss versucht seine Angebetete auch noch immer wieder, ihn umzubringen. Denn Jane hütet ein hochexplosives Geheimnis, und Eddie weiß bereits zu viel ...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER -The first novel in the renowned Thursday Next series, which "combines elements of Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (The Wall Street Journal). "A literary wonderland [that] recalls Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series [and] the works of Lewis Carroll."-USA Today Meet Thursday Next, "part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part Dirty Harry" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times), a literary detective without equal, fear, or boyfriend-and welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wadsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offense. All this is business as usual for Thursday, renowned Special Operative in literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature. When Jane Eyre is plucked from the pages of Brontë's novel, Thursday must track down the villain and enter a novel herself to avert a heinous act of literary homicide. Don't miss any of Jasper Fforde's delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels: <BR>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

The third book in the phenomenal Thursday Next series from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. <BR><BR>In the words of one critic: 'Don't ask. Just read it.'<BR><BR>Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled 'Caversham Heights'. Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. <BR><BR>But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ... With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'.<BR><BR>With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, 'The Well of Lost Plots' is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'.

The fifth book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde. <BR><BR>'Ingenious - I'll watch Jasper Fforde nervously' Terry Pratchett on The Eyre Affair<BR><BR>Fourteen years after she pegged out at 1988 SuperHoop, Thursday Next is grappling with a recalcitrant new apprentice, the death of Sherlock Holmes and the inexplicable departure of comedy from the once-hilarious Thomas Hardy novels.<BR><BR>Her idle sixteen-year-old would rather sleep all day than save the world from imminent destruction, the government has a dangerously high stupidity surplues, and the Stiltonista Cheese Mafia are causing trouble for Thursday in her hometown of Swindon. <BR><BR>Then things begin to get bad. As Reality Book Shows look set to transplant Reality TV Shows and Goliath invent a trans-fictional tourist coach, Thursday must once again have her wits about her as she travels to the very limits of acceptable narrative possibilities to rescue the reading experience from almost certain destruction . . .

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR<BR><BR>'Sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality' The Times<BR><BR>______________________________________________<BR> <BR>England, 2020, <BR><BR>There are 1,2 million human-sized rabbits living in the UK, <BR><BR>They can walk, talk and drive cars, the result of an Inexplicable Anthropomorphising Event fifty-five years ago, <BR>And a family of rabbits is about to move into Much Hemlock, a cosy little village where life revolves around summer fetes, jam-making, gossipy corner stores, and the oh-so-important Best Kept Village awards,<BR><BR>No sooner have the rabbits arrived than the villagers decide they must depart, But Mrs Constance Rabbit is made of sterner stuff, and her family are behind her, Unusually, so are their neigGebours, long-time residents Peter Knox and his daughter Pippa, who soon find that you can be a friend to rabbits or humans, but not both,<BR><BR>With a blossoming romance, acute cultural differences, enforced rehoming to a MegaWarren in Wales, and the full power of the ruling United Kingdom Anti Rabbit Party against them, Peter and Pippa are about to question everything they'd ever thought about their friends, their nation, and their species,<BR><BR>It'll take a rabbit to teach a human humanity , , , <BR><BR>PRAISE FOR JASPER FFORDE<BR><BR>'A born wordsmith of effervescent imagination' Independent<BR> <BR>'Forget all the rules of time, space and reality just sit back and enjoy the adventure' Telegraph<BR><BR>'Endlessly imaginative and distinctively quirky' Mail on Sunday on Early Riser<BR><BR>'True literary comic genius' Sunday Express<BR><BR>'Brilliantly funny , , , His relentless imagination and his affection for his characters are contagious and irresistible' New York Times

In seinem 'bisher ernüchterndsten und realistischsten Buch' (The Guardian) spielt der postmoderne Fantasy- und Bestseller-Autor Jasper Fforde alle Mechanismen von Rassismus und Xenophobie klug und unterhaltsam durch, und zwar in einer absurd-komischen Parallelwelt, die - abgesehen von vermenschlichten Kaninchen - der unseren doch erschreckend ähnelt.Das britische Dörfchen Much Hemlock, nah an der walisischen Grenze, war immer ein Hort des Friedens. Sauber. Traditionell. Die Menschen aufrecht und beflissen. Doch dann kommen sie. Mit ihrer seltsamen Religion, ihrer aggressiven veganen Agenda und viel zu vielen Kindern. Zwar geben sie sich ruhig und friedliebend, aber wer weiß, wie lange noch? 'Sie' sind eine Familie vermenschlichter Ka­nin­chen - das Ergebnis eines unerklärlichen Ereignisses vor rund einem halben Jahr­hundert.Ihr Nachbar, der langjährige Dorfbewohner Peter Knox, muss sich entscheiden: Kann er Zaungast der Entwicklung bleiben und weiterhin eine ruhige Kugel bei der RabbitCompliance Taskforce schieben oder soll er den neuen Nachbarn beistehen, denen, wie allen anderen 1,2 Millionen Kanin­chen im Ver­einigten Königreich, die Zwangsumsiedlung nach Wales droht?

The final instalment of the Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, demonstrating that with a small band of committed followers, a large tin of resolve and steely determination, almost anything can be achieved . . .<BR><BR>Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekick and fellow Orphan Tiger Prawns have been driven to the tip of the UnUnited Kingdoms - Cornwall - by the invasion of the Trolls. Their one defence is a six-foot-wide trench full of buttons, something which the Trolls find unaccountably terrifying (it's their clickiness). <BR><BR>Worse than being eaten by Trolls is the prospect of the Mighty Shandar requisitioning the Quarkbeast and using him to achieve supreme power and domination - an ambition that has been four hundred years in the planning and which will ultimately leave the Earth a cold cinder, devoid of all life.<BR><BR>Nothing has ever looked so bleak, but Jennifer, assisted by a renegade vegan Troll, a bunch of misfit sorcerers, the Princess (or is she now the ruler?) of the UnUnited (or are they now United?) Kingdoms, and Tiger, must find a way to vanquish the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, and along the way discover the truth about her parents, herself, and what is in the locked glovebox of her VW Beetle . . .

Jasper Fforde, the acclaimed SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, invites you to imagine a world where your position in society depends on what bit of the colour spectrum you can see...<BR><BR> It's the UK, but not as we know it: civilisation has rebuilt after an unspoken 'Something that Happened' five hundred years before. Society is now colour-based, the strict levels of hierarchy dictated by the colours you can see, and the economy, health service and citizen's aspirations all dominated by visual colour, run by the shadowy National Colour in far-off Emerald City.<BR><BR> Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, Eddie Russett and Jane Grey have discovered that all is neither fair nor truthful within their cosy environment, and currently face trumped up charges that will see them die of the fatally soporific tones within the Green Room.<BR><BR> Negotiating the narrow boundaries of the Rules within their society, Jane and Edward must find out the truth of their world: What is it, where is it and even when it is. As they unpeel the lies that cloak their existence they come to the worrying conclusion that they may not be alone: That there might be a Somewhere Else beyond the sea, and more, Someone Else living there - and observing them all, purposefully unseen.<BR><BR> Red Side Story delves into the strictures of a society imposed on itself by itself, immovable dogma and the spirit of humans trying to love and survive and make sense of a world that makes no sense at all. Only it does, of course - you just have to look harder, look further, and forget everything you've ever been told.<BR><BR> 'Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted . . . and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett' Independent<BR><BR> 'No summaries can do justice to the sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality' The Times<BR><BR> 'Brilliantly inventive' Mail on Sunday

Magic has been in a sad state in the Ununited Kingdom for years, but now it’s finally on the rise, and boneheaded King Snodd IV knows it. If he succeeds at his plot, the very future of magic will be at risk! Sensible sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, acting manager of Kazam Mystical Arts Management and its unpredictable crew of sorcerers, has little chance against the king and his cronies—but there’s no way Kazam will let go of the noble powers of magic without a fight. A suspenseful, satirical story of Quarkbeasts, trolls, and wizidrical crackle!

Welcome to the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. From the New York Times bestselling author of the Thursday Next series comes a rollicking novel—“as if the Marx brothers were let loose in the children’s section of a strange bookstore” (USA Today).<BR> <BR>“A wonderfully readable riot . . . cleverly plotted, magically overstuffed yet amazingly digestible . . . [for] anyone who wants the thrill of a good crime novel larded with highly literate humor.”—The Wall Street Journal<BR> <BR>Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of Reading’s Nursery Crime division. He’s investigating the murder of ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, ex-convict and lover of women, found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Yes, the big egg is down, and all those brittle pieces sitting in the morgue point to foul play.<BR> <BR>Spratt and his new partner, Sergeant Mary Mary, search through Humpty’s sordid past in hopes of finding the key to his death. Before long, Jack and Mary find themselves immersed in a bizarre case that reaches into the highest echelons of Reading society and business.