{"product_id":"dark-reading-matter-isbn-9781641296687","title":"Dark Reading Matter","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe final novel in the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003ebestselling series: Will literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next find her happy ending?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSwindon-based Literary Detective Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final adventure, \u003ci\u003eDark Reading Matter, \u003c\/i\u003eand  she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are too. Old foes  and new are plotting a terrible revenge: to disrupt the narrative and  make \u003ci\u003eDark Reading Matter \u003c\/i\u003enot just unreadable but unpublishable.  Thursday can’t let that happen and needs to use all her guile and  narrative trickery to unmask the antagonists.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt won’t be easy.  The Martians have broken out of their HG Wells novel and threaten both  the real world and the Bookworld. Agents from a higher reality want  unfettered access to the Dark Reading Matter, the realm where deleted  books and unrealised literary ideas end up. A Gateway to Hell has opened  up at Wantage’s Shakesmania, the nation’s second-worst Shakespeare  theme park, and the cosy world of Enid Blyton has been hijacked by Ultra  Right Wing Nationalists. With Reality Field Distortion experiments  going haywire, a partially redacted donkey, a Bookworld on the brink of  losing its imaginative energy to Big Tech and a murderous stamp  collector with Philaticide on their mind, Thursday has to navigate a  tightrope of borderline unusable narrative devices to bring the series  to a satisfactory conclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s a tall order, but Thursday has  a secret weapon: Her own adaptability, her husband, Landen, a host of  stalwart friends and ultimately the most loyal compatriots she can call  upon: her readers.\u003cb\u003e\u003cu\u003ePraise for the Thursday Next Books\u003c\/u\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Playful . . . It’s not hard to see what this enthusiasm is about . . . It’s easy to be delighted by a writer who loves books so madly.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—Janet Maslin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “What keeps this series humming is Fforde’s lively engagement with books and the indefatigable woman he’s created to defend them.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Richly crammed with jokes, ideas, and action. Brainier silliness is hard to find.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e “Reading a truly good book, the page opens like a trapdoor and you simply fall through. \u003ci\u003eThe Eyre Affair \u003c\/i\u003etakes that feeling, the moment you lose the sense of yourself and become engrossed in the story, and creates high adventure and wild drama around the porous boundaries between fiction and real life.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “Jam-packed with spot-on parody, puns and wry observations about words and genres that will delight literary-minded fans of the series.”\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e “In \u003ci\u003eMisery\u003c\/i\u003e, Stephen King compares the euphoric feeling writers experience in creative bursts to ‘falling into a hole filled with bright light.’ Avid readers also know that feeling: A good story temporarily erases the world. British novelist Jasper Fforde has expanded on King’s simile in a wonderful seven-book series of novels featuring Thursday Next. Enormously knowledgeable about literary history, Fforde scatters nuggets for nerdy readers like me. By the end, all of Fforde’s myriad particles of plot, accelerated by his immense skill and narrative sense, collide, producing pyrotechnics and a passel of new particles to propel his next tale. I love the Thursday Next books, and when a new one appears, I don’t fall but leap into this bibliophile’s Wonderland.” \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe Cleveland Plain Dealer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eJasper Fforde \u003c\/b\u003espent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller list with \u003ci\u003eThe Eyre Affair\u003c\/i\u003e in 2001. Since then he has written another fifteen novels, including \u003ci\u003eThe Big Over Easy\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Constant Rabbit, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eShades of Grey\u003c\/i\u003e. Fforde lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales. Visit Jasper's website, www.jasperfforde.com, find him on Facebook, www.facebook.com\/jasperffordebooks, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com\/jasperfforde.","brand":"Soho Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303443976421,"sku":"NP9781641296687","price":29.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781641296687.jpg?v=1767724722","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/dark-reading-matter-isbn-9781641296687","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}