Thursday Next

Thursday Next
Thursday Next character
First appearanceThe Eyre Affair
Created byJasper Fforde
In-universe information
GenderFemale
NationalityEnglish

Thursday Next is the protagonist in a series of comic fantasy, alternate history mystery novels by the British author Jasper Fforde. She was introduced for the first time in Fforde's first published novel, The Eyre Affair, released on 19 July 2001 by Hodder & Stoughton. As of 2012, the series comprises seven books, in two series.[1] The first series is made up of the novels The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten. The second series is so far made up of First Among Sequels, One of Our Thursdays Is Missing and The Woman Who Died a Lot. As of November 2023, the next novel, Dark Reading Matter, is planned for 2025.[2][3]

  1. ^ Special features for First Among Sequels – note that a code word (from the novel) is required to access this page.
  2. ^ Dark Reading Matter
  3. ^ Next Book