{"product_id":"signed-indie-exclusive-dark-reading-matter-pre-order-now-for-15-10-2026","title":"SIGNED INDIE EXCLUSIVE - Dark Reading Matter - PRE-ORDER NOW FOR 15\/10\/2026","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(248, 13, 13);\"\u003ePre-order your signed copy of Dark Reading Matter by Jasper Fforde for £22.00. This edition is SIGNED.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePublication date:  15\/0\/2026\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eNOTE: Pre-Orders will only be posted\/available to collect following the publication date above.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDescription\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe final novel in the highly acclaimed and beloved Thursday Next series. Will\u003cbr\u003eThursday find her happy ending?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSwindon-based Literary Detective Thursday Next is embarking on her eighth and final\u003cbr\u003eadventure: 'Dark Reading Matter' and she is well aware of the fact. The problem is, others\u003cbr\u003eare too. Old foes and new are plotting a terrible revenge: To disrupt the narrative and\u003cbr\u003emake Dark Reading Matter not just unreadable but unpublishable. Thursday can't let that\u003cbr\u003ehappen and needs to use all her guile and narrative trickery to unmask the antagonists\u003cbr\u003eand guide the series to a satisfactory conclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt won't be easy. The Martians have broken out of their HG Wells novel and threaten both\u003cbr\u003ethe real world and the Bookworld. Agents from a higher reality want unfettered access to\u003cbr\u003ethe Dark Reading Matter, the realm where deleted books and unrealised literary ideas end\u003cbr\u003eup. A Gateway to Hell has opened up at Wantage's Shakesmania, the nation's second to\u003cbr\u003eworst Shakespeare theme park and the cosy world of Enid Blyton has been hi-jacked by\u003cbr\u003eUltra Right Wing Nationalists. With Reality Field Distortion experiments going haywire, a\u003cbr\u003epartially redacted donkey, a Bookworld on the brink of losing its imaginative energy to Big\u003cbr\u003eTech and a murderous stamp collector with Philaticide on their mind, Thursday has to\u003cbr\u003enavigate a tightrope of borderline unusable narrative devices to bring the series to a\u003cbr\u003esatisfactory conclusion.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57129174466933,"sku":"9781529393682","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/DarkReadingMatterFinal2_independentBooksellers3.jpg?v=1777986733","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/signed-indie-exclusive-dark-reading-matter-pre-order-now-for-15-10-2026","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}