Bats In The Belfry
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Bruce Attleton dazzled London's literary scene with his first two novels - but his early promise did...
The Country of Others
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1944. After the Liberation, Mathilde leaves France to join her husband in Morocco. But life here...
Historical Fiction France Morocco Literary Fiction French in translation
All My Mothers
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MEET EVA MARTÍNEZ-GREEN, AN ONLY CHILD FULL OF QUESTIONS ABOUT HER BEGINNINGS. Between her...
Literary Fiction
The Saint of Lost Things
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Lindy Morris is stuck. She lives in rural Ireland, banished to a lonely bungalow by her Granda...
Literary Fiction Rural Life Ireland Trigger warning: domestic abuse
Starlight in the Dawn: The Poetic Priestess Who Chose To Fight
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A gripping story of Enheduanna, the first literary person of ancient history. It is based on her...
historical fiction
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The Dictator’s Wife
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WOMAN I learned early in life how to survive. A skill that became vital in my position. WIFE I...
Historical fiction Literary fiction Eastern Europe
Phil Leader (619 KP) rated Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4) in Books
Nov 26, 2019
Thursday, along with her young child Friday, decides it is time to leave the Bookworld behind and return to the real world, despite the danger this poses from the all powerful Goliath corporation. They have already erased her husband from existence and wanted to do the same to her. But Goliath are now benign and repentant. But that doesn't mean that Thursday can have a happy ending. Not only does she need to get her husband back, but unless Swindon can win the Superhoop croquet world cup there will be an unstoppable chain of events leading to the end of the world.
As usual with Fforde the plot is complex, convoluted and wildly improbable but that doesn't stop him pulling the reader into the slightly off-kilter world of the Nexts. As could be expected the humour is packed in tight. Literary jokes, in world jokes, real world jokes. Playing with language and words in every inventive way possible. All of these are his stock in trade and he uses them to great effect here.
This was for me a little weaker than the first three books, possibly because now back in Thursday's world is a little more mundane than seeing works of literature from the inside but there are still plenty of laughs to be had and the various plot strands will keep you guessing
The Canterville Ghost (Oscar Wilde) Immersive Book
Book, Education and Stickers
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Reader, in your eager and clasping hands, you hold one of Oscar Wilde's most cherished works: The...
We All Dance to a Mysterious Tune: Stange Stories, Poems and Essays, the Confessions of a Feminine Man
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An intimate autobiography describing the personal and sexual life of a poet working in the retail...