num_pages: 360
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is created --- Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights. Her husband, Landen, exists only in her memories and with Goliath and the Chronoguard on her tail in the real world, the safest place for her to be is inside the covers of a book.But changes are afoot within the world of fiction. The much-awaited upgrade to the centuries-old book system --- in which grammasites will be exterminated, punctuation standardised and the number of possible plots increased from eight to an astonishing thirty-two --- is only weeks away. But if this is the beginning of a golden age in fictional narrative, then why are Jurisfiction agents mysteriously dying? Perkins is eaten by the minotaur, Snell succumbs to the Mispeling Vyrus and Godot is missing.As the date of the upgrade looms closer and the bookworld prepares for the 923rd Annual Fiction Awards, Thursday must unmask the villain responsible for the murders, establish just what exactly the upgrade entails --- and do battle with an old enemy intent on playing havoc with her memories.
language: English
title: The Well of Lost Plots
titlecomplete: The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
characters: Akrid Snell, Thursday Next, David "Pinky" Perkins, Commander Trafford Bradshaw, The Minotaur, Aornis Hades, Granny Next, Landen Parke-Laine, Emperor Zhark, Acheron Hades, Miss Havisham, Pickwick
genres: Comedy, Books About Books, Fantasy, Mystery, Alternate History, Time Travel, Humor, Science Fiction Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction
ratings_count: 40332
places: United Kingdom
series: Thursday Next
awards: awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize
category: Comic Fiction
publisher: Hodder and Stoughton