Why did you choose a corporation as the other major villain in the story?

Yorrick has also taken out a hit on her: he has hired an assassin known as "The Windowmaker", who is actually Cindy Stoker, the wife of Thursday's longtime friend, Spike. Softcover, Viking..., 2004 In the meantime, she embarks on several seemingly impossible tasks, which include smuggling ten truckloads of banned Danish literature into Wales, tracking down an illegal clone of William Shakespeare, and teaching Friday to speak properly.

Performing this sometimes thankless task, Jurisfiction agents live mostly on their wits as they attempt to reconcile the author's original wishes and readers' expectations against a strict and largely pointless set of bureaucratic guidelines laid down by the Council of Genres. The whole western genre had far too many gunslingers for its own good; there had been some confusion over the numbers required on the order form when the genre was inaugurated. Acheron Hades isn't the only personification of evil in your novels. I showed the barkeeper my Jurisfiction badge as Bradshaw kept a vigilant lookout. Death at Double-X Ranch was set in 1875 and written in 1908. Thursday feels duped when she finds that, through some form of mind control, she has formally forgiven them, even though there is no sign of her husband. Submit your email address to receive Barnes & Noble offers & updates. Jasper Fforde is the author of The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, (both from Penguin) and The Well of Lost Plots (Viking), the first three books in the Thursday Next fantasy/detective series. Below this was a chipped enameled coffeepot sitting atop a cast-iron stove, and next to the wall to the left were a gun cabinet and a tabby cat sprawled upon a large bureau. The characters of Jane Eyre, Rochester, Mrs. Fairfax, Grace Poole, Bertha, and Pilot the dog are all great fun to subvert in the name of Nextian entertainment. She is still hunting the Minotaur that escaped in the last book; she is tiring of fiction, however, and longs to return to her own world and get back her husband Landen, who was removed from time by the evil Goliath Corporation in 1947. Working with the intelligence-gathering capabilities of Text Grand Central, the many Prose Resource Operatives at Jurisfiction work tirelessly to maintain the continuity of the narrative within the pages of all the books ever written. She learns that in her absence, Yorrick Kaine has joined forces with Goliath Corporation and plans to oust the ageing English President George Formby. The fate of the world depends on the results of the Superhoop, with help from the cloned Neanderthals wholly owned by Goliath Corporation, now a religion after a year of bad press. Can Swindon win the world croquet championship and thus prevent the end of the world? . Why did you choose Jane Eyre for Thursday's first jump into literature? The final chapters contain some curious time paradoxes in which Thursday finds that she has met herself at several other stages in her own lifespan, including one character which had seemed to be an independent character. FIRST IN THE ALL-NEW CLAN MACALPIN SERIES. $39 for a year.

All of a sudden I had this overwhelming desire to talk for a very long time without actually doing anything.”. His lady rushed up to hug him as he reholstered his revolver with a flourish. Most westerns tended to show a glamorized version of the Old West that hadn't really existed. It’s 1988 and set in Swindon, Wessex, England. After Scotland's Civil Wars, the orphaned brothers and sisters of the MacAlpin clan reclaimed the abandoned Dunnochen Castle as their birthright. New. The first is that time is highly volatile, with every small event altering the possible outcome of the earth's future.

Swift's Gulliver's Travelsis another firm favorite, as is Grossmith's Diary of a Nobody. Fforde's literary invention and playfulness is unique (Poisoned Pen)[Fforde's] brand of inspired lunacy truly stands on its own ... this new book completes his creation of a world of true literary comic genius (Sunday Express on The Well of Lost Plots)'The pleasure in Fforde's quirkily brilliant books is that they can be enjoyed on so many levels by all ages.