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The Eyre Affair: Thursday Next Book 1
By (Author) Jasper Fforde
By (author) No Author Listed
Hodder & Stoughton
Hodder & Stoughton
17th February 2026
6th November 2025
United Kingdom
General
Fiction
Crime and / or mystery fiction
Adventure / action fiction
Hardback
384
Width 156mm, Height 240mm
300g
Published 25 years ago and now a cult classic, The Eyre Affair is the first book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde.
Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend.There is another 1985, where London's criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of the new crime wave's MR Big.Acheron Hades has been kidnapping certain characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre is gone. Missing.Thursday sets out to find a way into the book to repair the damage. But solving crimes against literature isn't easy when you also have to find time to halt the Crimean War, persuade the man you love to marry you, and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare's plays.Perhaps today just isn't going to be Thursday's day. Join her on a truly breathtaking adventure, and find out for yourself. Fiction will never be the same again.Jasper Fforde (Author)
Jasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Times bestseller list with The Eyre Affair in 2001. Since then he has written another fifteen novels, including the Number One Sunday Times bestseller One of our Thursdays is Missing, and the Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky. 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.