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First Among Sequels

Jasper Fforde
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  1. First Among Sequels
  2. Thursday Next Book 5
  3. Jasper Fforde
  4. ALSO BY JASPER FFORDE
  5. FirstAmongSequels
  6. Jasper Fforde
  7. Contents
  8. Author’s Note
  9. FirstAmongSequels
  10. Breakfast
  11. Mum and Polly and Mycroft
  12. Acme Carpets
  13. Jurisfiction
  14. Training Day
  15. The Great Library andCouncil of Genres
  16. A Probe Inside Pinocchio
  17. Julian Sparkle
  18. Core Containment
  19. The Well of Lost Plots
  20. The Refit
  21. Kids
  22. The ChronoGuard
  23. Home Again
  24. Cheese
  25. Breakfast Again
  26. Aornis Hades
  27. The Goliath Corporation
  28. The Austen Rover
  29. Holmes
  30. Next
  31. The Piano Problem
  32. Policy Directives
  33. The Paragon
  34. Thursday Next
  35. Bound to the Outland
  36. The Discreet Charmof the Outland
  37. Time Out of Joint
  38. Now Is the Winter
  39. Spending the Surplus
  40. The Austen Rover Roving
  41. Somewhere Else Entirely
  42. Rescue/Capture
  43. The Bees, the Bees
  44. Senator Jobsworth
  45. The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco
  46. The End of Time
  47. A Woman NamedThursday Next
  48. My Thanks to:

First Among Sequels

Thursday Next Book 5

Jasper Fforde

ALSO BY JASPER FFORDE

The Thursday Next Series

The Eyre Affair

Lost in a Good Book

The Well of Lost Plots

Something Rotten

The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco

(No longer available)

The Nursery Crimes Series

The Big Over Easy

The Fourth Bear

The Danverclone seemed to hang
in the air for a moment before a large wave
caught her and she was left behind the
rapidly moving taxi.

THURSDAY NEXT
IN

First
Among
Sequels

A NOVEL

Jasper Fforde

Illustrations by Bill Mudron and Dylan Meconis

Grateful acknowledgment is made to Agatha Christie Limited (A Chorion Company) for reference to They Do It with Mirrors © Agatha Christie (A Chorion Company). All rights reserved.

Publisher’s Note: This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.

For Cressida,

the bestest sister in the world

Contents

Author’s Note

1.  Breakfast

2.  Mum and Polly and Mycroft

3.  Acme Carpets

4.  Jurisfiction

5.  Training Day

6.  The Great Library and Council of Genres

7.  A Probe Inside Pinocchio

8.  Julian Sparkle

9.  Core Containment

10.  The Well of Lost Plots

11.  The Refit

12.  Kids

14.  The ChronoGuard

15.  Home Again

16.  Cheese

17.  Breakfast Again

18.  Aornis Hades

19.  The Goliath Corporation

20.  The Austen Rover

21.  Holmes

22.  Next

23.  The Piano Problem

24.  Policy Directives

25.  The Paragon

26.  Thursday Next

27.  Bound to the Outland

28.  The Discreet Charm of the Outland

29.  Time Out of Joint

30.  Now Is the Winter

31.  Spending the Surplus

32.  The Austen Rover Roving

33.  Somewhere Else Entirely

34.  Rescue/Capture

35.  The Bees, the Bees

36.  Senator Jobsworth

37.  The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco

38.  The End of Time

39.  A Woman Named Thursday Next

Author’s Note

This book has been bundled with Special Features,
including The Making of… wordamentary, deleted scenes,
alternative endings and much more.

The year is 2002. It is fourteen years since Thursday
almost pegged out at the 1988 Croquet SuperHoop, and
life is beginning to get back to normal….

First
Among
Sequels

Breakfast

The Swindon that I knew in 2002 had a lot going for it. A busy financial center coupled with excellent infrastructure and surrounded by green and peaceful countryside had made the city about as popular a place as you might find anywhere in the nation. We had our own forty-thousand-seat croquet stadium, the recently finished Cathedral of St. Zvlkx, a concert hall, two local TV networks and the only radio station in England dedicated solely to mariachi music. Our central position in southern England also made us the hub for high-speed overland travel from the newly appointed Clary-LaMarr Travelport. It was little wonder that we called Swindon “the Jewel on the M4.”