Jasper Fforde at Harvard Book Store
Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA
Harvard Book Store welcomes Jasper Fforde —author of fifteen novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Eyre Affair , the first book in his Thursday Next series — for a discussion of the eighth and final installment in the Thursday Next series, Dark Reading Matter: The Last Thursday Next Novel . About Dark Reading Matter Will literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next find her happy ending? The outrageous, heartfelt conclusion to the New York Times bestselling series, which began with The Eyre Affair , will have you, Dear Reader, laughing out loud. Ex-Literary Special Ops agent Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final fictional adventure, and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are aware of it, too. Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: to disrupt the narrative and make the last Thursday Next novel, Dark Reading Matter, not just unreadable but unpublishable. Thursday can’t let that happen, and needs to use all her guile and narrative trickery to unmask the antagonists. It won’t be easy. The Martians have broken out of their H. G. Wells novel and threaten both the real world and the BookWorld. Agents from a higher reality want…