Dark Reading Matter
Jasper Fforde
15 October 2026
Signed Exclusive Edition
*Includes bespoke 2-colour endpapers*
*Pre-order to win a very special opportunity to join Jasper Fforde for a private Book Group meeting in Rossiter Books, Ross-on-Wye*

 

***Jasper Fforde Dark Reading Matter Pre-order Competition***

10 lucky people will win a very special opportunity to join Jasper Fforde for a private Book Group meeting in Rossiter Books, Ross-on-Wye.
Pre-order a signed special edition copy of Dark Reading Matter from any Rossiter Books branch or via the rossiterbooks.co.uk website before midnight on Thursday 8th October to be entered into the draw.

Terms and Conditions

Pre-order a signed special edition copy of Jasper Fforde’s Dark Reading Matter before midnight on Thursday 8th October from any Rossiter Books branch or via rossiterbooks.co.uk

Customers must leave name, address and phone number when placing the pre-order.

The prize is for one person to visit Rossiter Books, Ross on Wye on Wednesday 4th November for a private Book Club meeting with Jasper Fforde.

Address of Book Group meeting:

Rossiter Books, The Corn Exchange, High Street, Ross on Wye, HR9 5HL

Winners must be able to make their own way to and from the venue.

There will be 10 winners.

The Prize is non-refundable, non-transferable and subject to your availability to attend.

No cash or other alternatives to the Prizes are available.

Winners will be notified by Rossiter Books on 15th October.

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The final novel in the highly acclaimed and beloved Thursday Next series. Will Thursday find her happy ending?

Swindon-based Literary Detective Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final adventure: ‘Dark Reading Matter’ and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others are too. Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: To disrupt the narrative and make Dark Reading Matter not just unreadable but unpublishable. Thursday can’t let that happen and needs to use all her guile and narrative trickery to unmask the antagonists and guide the series to a satisfactory conclusion.

It won’t be easy. The Martians have broken out of their HG Wells novel and threaten both the real world and the Bookworld. Agents from a higher reality want unfettered access to the Dark Reading Matter, the realm where deleted books and unrealised literary ideas end up. A Gateway to Hell has opened up at Wantage’s Shakesmania, the nation’s second to worst Shakespeare theme park and the cosy world of Enid Blyton has been hi-jacked by Ultra Right Wing Nationalists. With Reality Field Distortion experiments going haywire, a partially redacted donkey, a Bookworld on the brink of losing its imaginative energy to Big Tech and a murderous stamp collector with Philaticide on their mind, Thursday has to navigate a tightrope of borderline unusable narrative devices to bring the series to a satisfactory conclusion.

It’s a tall order, but Thursday has a secret weapon: Her own adaptability, her husband Landen, a host of stalwart friends and ultimately the most loyal compatriots she can call upon: Her readers.

‘Hugely funny and gloriously imaginative’ Daily Express
‘Fans of the late Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde’ Herald