..So Amazon are advertising TN5 ' Nursey Crimes '...Have I missed something?

Jasper will be taking a year off from the Thursday Next series and will be publishing a polished up version of one of his earlier, unpublished books. This will be very much in the vain of Caversham Heights and the murder of Humpty Dumpty. Should be fun!

Excellent! Will be looking forward to that. Of course, Jasper, I feel, deserves a break and so becoming slightly dictatorial I think he should have one. Away with you, put down the pen and go learn how to use a sword or some other such needed skill! ;-)

luv.

deref.

A year off!! Say it isn't so, please! I'll have to read TN4 at a rate of one chapter a month just to keep me going. I kind of like the idea of Humpty Dumpty being pushed though in Nursery Crimes. Was it the King do you think? Maybe Humpty was having an affair with the Queen and the King had him bumped off, so to speak. That may have been why the King's men were there so quickly. In Tarrentino style they could of been on skull duty trying to put him back together again, knowing it was an impossible task, just to confuse the reader. I think it was the same guy that stole Little Bo Peep's sheep. Whoever would upset Bo like that it definitely capable of murder.
Anyway, sounds like fun whoever it was!

See ya later, Del.

When will 'Nursery Crimes' be available in the U.S.?

So Nursery Crimes won't be the next Next book??????

Nope, Nursery Crimes is more like Caversham Heights from WOLP...a who killed Humpty Dumpty thing...I can't wait!

I asked Jasper at the signing and Nursery Crimes is out next summer. I guess that means a couple of years before the next Next.

THe next Thursday next book is scheduled to come out july 17th 2006....... this is accordng to amazon.co.uk but they don't even have a title yet!

You can actually preorder the next TN book though!

Heh, internet shopping at its best.

I wonder what it feels like to preorder a (as yet) nonexistent product....



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Curiously negative.

What's the consensus on Nursery Crimes?Personally I had hoped that Landen and Friday would get more pages.The whole Friday-as-ChronoGuard thing needs some sort of event to kickstart it,don't you think?

On the other hand,it woul be interesting to see Jasper writing in the third person,or as some other character in WOLP(Humpty Dumpty?).That guest first-person with Landen was a great little surprise,I'm hoping Nursery Crimes allows him to do a little branching out,narrative wise.Not that it needs any improving,mind you.Just a change of pace,or a fresher piece of Battenberg.

Tasha, I'm not sure that Nursery Crimes is a Thursday Next book.



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I, on the other hand, am entirely sure that 'Nursery Crimes' IS NOT a Thursday Next book; or do I mean that it is not Thursday Next's next book?

Depending on the worldview and diegesis, it might have something along the lines of "this girl who'd apparently just had a sprog said she was investigating, but we saw her off", but I can say with confidence that it won't be a Thursday Next book.



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Will it be set in Caversham Heights though?? I live there and love feeling like my area's famous...