Fourteen years after Thursday Next pegged out at Superhoop '88, her Jurisfiction job has been downgraded due to a potential conflict of interest, since her previous adventures are now themselves in print. Thursday's time is spent worrying about her teenage son Friday & tutoring new recruits. This being fiction, however, jeopardy is never far away. Sherlock Holmes is killed at the Rheinbach falls & his series is stopped in its tracks. Before this can be righted, Miss Marple dies in a narratively inexplicable car accident, bringing her series also to a close. Thursday, receiving a death-threat clearly intended for her written self, realises what is going on
- there is a serial killer is loose in the Bookworld. Meanwhile, Goliath have perfected a 22-seater Prose Portal luxury Coach, & plan on taking literary tourists on a holiday to the works of Jane Austen. Thursday alone realises the true intent of Goliath's unwanted incursions into fiction, but she can't fight all these battles on her own. She must team up with the one person she really can't get along with
- the written Thursday Next, currently starring in The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco. But it's no time to be picky...

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First Animals is a super-cool colouring book, jam-packed with bumpy-line pictures & first words
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An atlas that introduces the basics of geography & mapping while giving children an understanding of the relationship between countries & continents. It features colourful maps, diagrams & photographs that introduce the continents & countries of the world, their people, physical geography & other characteristics. ...

Featuring dinosaur art, this book delivers kids' favourite dinosaurs & introduces them to new ones. It also

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National Geographic presents a delightful, age-appropriate introduction to everything children need to know about weather. This new title in the successful National Geographic Little Kids First Big Book series features more than 100 colour photographs plus prompts & suggested activities that tap into 4-to-8-year-old's natural curiosity about everything from seasons to snowflakes. ...

Full of stylish, simple projects that make beautiful, elegant & professional-looking cards. Quick & easy techniques & step-by-step projects, plus ideas for matching items. Learn to make inexpensive & quick invitations, tags & gift wrap. It's the perfect introduction to the world of card making. ...

Flanders, June 1917, a British officer is shot dead, killed not by German fire, but while recuperating from shell shock well behind the lines. This novel presents a historical drama, & explores some fundamental questions such as: What is murder? What is justice in the face of daily slaughter? ...

Mysterious beans are found on the market stalls of the East, to which ancient superstition lends the power of favouring the birth of male children. When a French entomologist obtains a few of these beans, he worries that the world has entered a critical phase of its history. ...

Discover everything there is to know all in one book with this First Childrens Encyclopedia packed full of knowledge!

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Since the Penny Black first burst on the scene in 1840, they have made & mirrored history as it happens
- from the ' British Empire
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