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If you haven't yet discovered the joy and delight and sheer silly fun that is reading a Jasper Fforde novel, then you have a treat in store. Fforde writes about books, about reading books, about the world within the book, about the interaction between text and reader (not so much author) and does it all with utterly hilarious jokes. It took me a long time to notice that the romantic male lead is called Landen Parke-Laine. Try saying it out loud. Then add in the fact that his parents are Houson and Bildon.

Puns aside, the Thursday Next novels deal with time travel, goo, the Goliath corporation, smuggling cheese out of the People's Republic of Wales, and how to restore the kidnapped Jane Eyre to her novel which, since it is written in the first person, can't exist at all without her.

I read the fifth TN book on the plane last week. Fforde has also written two books in the Nursery Crimes series which are also fun. But not as much fun as the Thursday Next books, in my opinion.