Join us in celebrating the eighth and final installment in the 'Thursday Next' series with the incredible Jasper Fforde at Waterstones York!

Join fellow fans of the Thursday Next series as we come together to celebrate the release of Dark Reading Matter with Jasper Fforde at Waterstones York on Wednesday 21st October at 7pm!

About the event:

Our doors will open from 6.30pm and a bookseller will be present to greet you at the door and check tickets. We will have a range of refreshments available prior to the event starting at 7pm.

The evening will include a talk given by Jasper, followed by a Q&A with the audience and a book signing afterwards. Books will be available to purchase after the event although you can purchase a book and ticket in advance if you wish.

About the book, Dark Reading Matter by Jasper Fforde:

The final novel in the highly acclaimed and beloved Thursday Next series. Will Thursday find her happy ending?

The Dark Reading Matter is a theoretical realm that suggests that the observable bookverse can only account for 20% of the calculated total readable mass. Out there somewhere, possibly, is a larger and more expansive and unseeable 'Dark Bookverse' that contains millions of deleted novels, slush-pile manuscripts, lost poems, forgotten pop culture references, long unheard oral tradition, stories and ideas that were still in people's minds when they died.

It seems The Goliath Corporation hope to exploit the Dark Reading Matter for profit, and Thursday Next is once again pitted against a familiar foe. As is so often with Thursday's World, a visitor named Roger Thatt who purports to be from Fourth Wall Publishing has some peculiar ideas of his own that require careful thought. Is Thursday and everyone she knows living in a simulation? Was her world created from scratch Last Thursday as Roger supposes, and are the books she reads the only direction in which books can be read?

With existential questions the least of her troubles and a family to take care of, Thursday must defeat the Goliath Corporation, ensure that a tear in the fabric of the Bookworld does not suck all literature from hers, assist Roger Thatt to dealing with the issues in his own reality, and conclude her own series so she can enjoy a comfortable retirement, while dodging the threat of the worse fate imaginable for a story: The Scooby Doo ending.

Discover more about Jasper Fforde here:

Jasper Fforde Books | Waterstones

Accessibility:

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