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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Fforde, Jasper.
Thursday next in first among sequels / Jasper Fforde.
p. cm.
ISBN: 1-101-15867-0
1. Next, Thursday (Fictitious character)—Fiction. 2. Characters
and characteristics in literature—Fiction. 3. Women detectives—Great Britain—Fiction.
4. Books and reading—Fiction. 5. Time travel—Fiction.
I. Title. II. Title: First among sequels.
PR6106.F67T475 2007
823' .914—dc22 2007014615

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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

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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

1.

Breakfast