num_pages: 368
description: Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled "Caversham Heights". Landen, her husband, is still eradicated, Aornis Hades is meddling with Thursday's memory, and Miss Havisham - when not sewing up plot-holes in 'Mill on the Floss' - is trying to break the land-speed record on the A409. But something is rotten in the state of Jurisfiction. Perkins is 'accidentally' eaten by the minotaur, and Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus. As a shadow looms over popular fiction, Thursday must keep her wits about her and discover not only what is going on, but also who she can trust to tell about it ...With grammasites, holesmiths, trainee characters, pagerunners, baby dodos and an adopted home scheduled for demolition, "The Well of Lost Plots" is at once an addictively exciting adventure and an insight into how books are made, who makes them - and why there is no singular for 'scampi'. In the words of one 'Don't ask. Just read it.'
language: English
title: The Well of Lost Plots
titlecomplete: The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
characters: Akrid Snell, Pickwick, Thursday Next, Landen Parke-Laine, David "Pinky" Perkins, Aornis Hades, Emperor Zhark, Granny Next, The Minotaur, Acheron Hades, Miss Havisham, Commander Trafford Bradshaw
genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Books About Books, Mystery, Comedy, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Time Travel, Alternate History, Fantasy
ratings_count: 40344
places: United Kingdom
series: Thursday Next
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction
publisher: Hodder & Stoughton