Why a Booktrail?
1985: Somewhere far away in a parallel world ….book three…
The Well Of Lost Plots (3)
What you need to know before your trail
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is created), Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from within an unpublished book of dubious merit entitled ‘Caversham Heights’.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 …
Locations
Reset- England - Wiltshire - Swindon
- A: Thursday St
- B: Mycroft Rd
- C: Braxton Rd
- D: Havisham Drive
- E: Bradshaw Ct
Travel Guide
Travel BookTrail style and Visit Swindon
Due to the links Swindon has to the novels, Jasper Fforde explains that the Swindon Town Planning office got in touch with him back in around 2007 and asked if he would mind having a few of the streets of the city named after his characters. Of course he said no, and from that moment on, Swindon became a very special city on the literary map.
Nextian Estate
Imagine living on a street named after a literary character, or to be the author whose characters are immortalised in this way?
If wandering around to see these streets, be very aware that these are residential streets and that real people live there, not the characters in your imagination.
Booktrail Boarding Pass: The Well Of Lost Plots (3)
Destination: Swindon (and a parallel universe) Author/Guide: Jasper Fforde Departure Time: 1985
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