"Welcome to the surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant Baconians heckle performances of Hamlet, and forging Byronic verse is a punishable offence. All this is business as usual for Thursday Next, renowned Special Operative in the literary detection, until someone begins kidnapping characters from works of literature."

These two works by Jasper Fforde are funny, wonderfully clever, and hard to describe!

• The Eyre Affair (2001)
• Something Rotten (2004)

Trade paperback, both in very good condition.