Dark Reading Matter

by Jasper Fforde

Overview

Dark Reading Matter is the 8th and final novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series, following 2012’s The Woman Who Died a Lot. Readers have been anticipating this book, whose concept is teased in the plot of Book 7, for over a decade now.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781641296687
Publisher:	Soho Press, Incorporated
Publication date:	02/11/2025
Series:	Thursday Next Series , #8
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the 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 Big Over Easy, The Constant Rabbit, and Shades of Grey. 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.

Hometown:

Brecon, Powys, Wales, United Kingdom

Date of Birth:

January 11, 1961

Place of Birth:

London, United Kingdom

Education:

Left school at 18

Editorial Reviews

Praise for the Thursday Next Books
 
“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.”
—Janet Maslin, The New York Times

“What keeps this series humming is Fforde’s lively engagement with books and the indefatigable woman he’s created to defend them.”
—People

“Richly crammed with jokes, ideas, and action. Brainier silliness is hard to find.”
—USA Today
 
“Reading a truly good book, the page opens like a trapdoor and you simply fall through. The Eyre Affair takes 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.”
—The Guardian

“Jam-packed with spot-on parody, puns and wry observations about words and genres that will delight literary-minded fans of the series.”
—Los Angeles Times

“In Misery, 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.”
—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

From the Publisher