Thursday Next series (1-5) – Jasper Fforde Free Audiobook

Written by Jasper Fforde
Read by Elizabeth Sastre (1-3) / Emily Gray (4-5)
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

To complement Martin’s upload (audiobookbay.is/abss/jasper-fforde-books-jasper-fforde), these are the first five “Thursday Next” novels in m4b format:

· The Eyre Affair
· Lost in a Good Book
· The Well of Lost Plots
· Something Rotten
· First Among Sequels

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Thursday Next is a series of comic fantasy/alternate history novels by Welsh author Jasper Fforde, noted for its profusion of literary allusions and word play, tightly scripted plots, and playfulness with the conventions of traditional genres, containing various elements of metafiction, parody, and fantasy.

In the world of Thursday Next, literature is a much more popular medium than in our world, and the eponymous hero Thursday is a member of SO-27, the Literary Detectives or LiteraTecs. As the series progresses, the line between literature and reality becomes increasingly thin, allowing fictional characters to cross over into the “real world” – and, vice versa, real people to enter works of fiction.

The setting for all this is a parallel universe in which England is a republic, with George Formby as its first president, elected following the success of Operation Sealion (the mooted Nazi invasion of Great Britain), occupation, and liberation. There is no United Kingdom, and Wales is the independent “Socialist Republic of Wales”. The Crimean War is still being waged in 1985, Russia still has a Czar, and the Whig Party still exists in the House of Commons. Genetic engineering is far more advanced than in our own timeline, and so Thursday has a pet dodo, Pickwick. Re-engineered mammoths can cause damage to local gardens if in their path, and there is a Neanderthal rights movement, given the resurrection of this kindred branch of human evolution. Interestingly, the duck is extinct in this universe.