Utterly Explosive (The Utterly Crime Series Book 1)
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Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare? It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. Following the pathologist's careful reconstruction of Humpty's shell, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his Sergeant Mary Mary are soon grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, the illegal Bearnaise sauce market, corporate politics and the cut and thrust world of international Chiropody.
And on top of everything else, the JellyMan is coming to town Daily Mail 'A riot of puns, in-jokes and literary allusions that Fforde carries off with aplomb' --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. Daily Mirror 'Hilarious, absurd and utterly compelling. The word of mouth on Jasper Fforde has long been enthusiastic, among those in the know.
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But now that his readership has expanded immeasurably, the expectations for such books as The Big Over Easy are considerable. And whether or not those expectations will be met by this new book depends on the readiness of readers to strike out in new directions--just as the author has done.
Fforde's speciality has long been the outrageous teasing of narrative forms, and there's a measure of that here, although more disciplined than in earlier books. Rather in the fashion in which Stephen Sondheim exploded the world of fairytale in Into the Woods, Fforde here brings all the apparatus of the tough crime thriller to bear on the nursery rhyme.
The perpetrator would appear to be his ex-wife, but she has shot herself. Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his colleague Mary Mary are assigned to the case, and soon find themselves knee-deep in money-laundering, bullion smuggling and major problems with beanstalks. This isn't quite the Fforde mixture as before, although he has previously favoured a crime motor for his plots. The skill in this outrageously entertaining and rigorously plotted concoction lies in a double conjuring trick: No child could appreciate the dazzling wordplay and witty imagination on offer here, and most readers will be more than happy to encounter detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his contrary sidekick kick Mary Mary again and again.
After doubts arise concerning his handling of the Great Red-Legg'd Scissorman's arrest and the Red Riding Hood affair, he is suspended pending a mental health review. His DS Mary Mary promises to consult him on all cases, to bypass the suspension. They begin an investigation of porridge-smuggling by anthropomorphic bears. Jack's troubles increase when the argumentative Punches move in next door and his son adopts a sly and sticky-fingered pet.
Furthermore, his psychiatrist is particularly sceptical about his claim that his new car repairs itself when no one is watching, and the car salesman who can prove his sanity cannot be found. His self-esteem is somewhat restored when the newspaperman who has been hounding him begs Jack's help in finding his missing sister "Goldilocks". It seems she was working on an explosive story involving cucumber growers.
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Meanwhile the Gingerbreadman, the notorious murderous biscuit, or possibly cake escapes custody leaving a trail of bodies; Jack is frustrated when the case is given to an unimaginative officer outside NCD. While Jack and Mary are making enquiries about Goldilocks, they twice encounter the fugitive biscuit, but fail to capture him. With an unexploded bomb threatening to engulf the whole of Reading and National Security on their tail, Jack and Mary must put the pieces together and discover the identity of the Fourth Bear.
But it won't be easy. First Among Sequels Book 5 in the Thursday Next series It's , fourteen years after Thursday's last adventure battling a rogue book character in the Outland. Swindon seems to have quieted down since the excitement of the Superhoop. The politicians' biggest concern these days is which act of idiocy would be the best way to spend the growing, unwieldy Stupidity surplus. Thursday and her husband Landen Park-Laine now have three children. Thursday has settled into a quiet, normal life, dropping out of the SpecOps and Jurisfiction games completely.
The SpecOps units, formed to police the stranger crime elements such as the supernatural and literary crimes, have officially disbanded; unofficially, they have gone underground, working quietly behind a business front that installs carpets across town.
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Despite her promises to Landen, Thursday has also been secretly policing the Bookworld with her Jurisfiction colleagues, where the death of Sherlock Holmes, the discovery of book probes, and falling Outland reading rates have put the Bookworld on edge. In an effort to fill out the dwindling Jurisfiction forces, Thursday must mentor two apprentices-two very different doppelgangers born in the books written about her own life. One is a hippie-dippy do-gooder from the fifth feel-good novel of Thursday's adventure; the other is an uncensored, oversexed gunslinger from the first four unauthorized novels.
Under her tutelage, Thursday finally finds an opportunity to exact revenge on Thursday for her neglect of the factually-challenged, unauthorized series. As her first order of havoc-wreaking business, Thursday, posing as the real Thursday, jumps into the Outland and into Thursday's home.
Before Thursday can reduce the rogue to text, Thursday steals her Travelbook, effectively locking her mentor out of the Bookworld completely. Meanwhile, her eldest child, Friday Next, is now a "grunty and unintelligible" sixteen year old. Friday is destined to become one of the Chronoguard's most respected and influential leaders-if Thursday can convince him to join in time to help invent time travel. Everyone in the Chronoguard, including a clean-cut overachieving alternate Friday, is campaigning to help her force Friday into the service of time.
But if the real Friday knows his role in the invention of time travel, he's refusing to give it up, despite threats on his existence. While Thursday tries to find a way back into the Bookworld, her evil impostor gives the green light to a project that will rewrite the English classics, complete with audience call-in votes directing the story, starting with Pride and Prejudice. To save books from being turned into reality television shows, Thursday must turn to her sworn enemy, the Goliath Corporation.
They have made progress on the Austen Rover, the first interliterary tour bus ever created. Goliath has solicited Thursday's help to map the Rover's entry into the Bookworld since, without it, they could easily wind up lost in the Nothing-vast, treacherous areas of abandoned Dark Reading Matter. But Goliath has ulterior motives in trying to jump into the Bookworld, and Thursday won't find out until she's trapped at sea in an excruciating Moral Dilemma.
Can Thursday save the literary canon from decimation by creative democracy?
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Shades of Grey Book 1 in the Shades series Boy meets girl, girl meets boy. Girl then tries to kill boy - twice - the boy can see a lot of Red, and the girl can't see any colour at all, and that's something of a problem. Welcome to the colour-obsessed world of Shades of Grey, which is set at least two world orders into the future.
Visual colour has become commodified, the social pecking order and levels of authority are not based on intellect, cash, ability, or the best liar, but which colour you can see - Purples are at the top of the heap and Reds at the bottom, with the Greys who see no colour at all as the lowly drones of the collective. Power is decentralised with village Prefects meting out local punishment, and national collections have been dispersed - every village holds at least one Picasso, and often a Vermeer and a Chagall, too.
The land is lush, semi-tropical, teams with wandering megafauna, antelope, and Bouncing Goat - but not many humans. He would just see it as coincidental that there were so many men there. Full Frontal has won several Logie Awards in its time. It has been nominated for several as well. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Steve Vizard Andrew Knight.
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