One of our Thursdays is MissingIt is a time of unrest in the BookWorld. Only the diplomatic skills of ace literary detective Thursday Next can avert a devastating genre war. But a week before the peace talks, Thursday vanishes. Has she simply returned home to the RealWorld or is this something more sinister? All is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next, eager to prove herself worthy of her illustrious namesake. The fictional

As he writes the official history of Blake's

But then he caught a shark in his net - one that did not take too kindly to blackmail

was sent to the penal colony of French Guiana

The Forgotten Legion ten thousand legionaries made captive by the Parthians has marched to Margiana on the edge of the known world

a notorious Japanese biological warfare research laboratory

gagged and dead in front of his TV

already struggling to come to terms with a life-changing event

who wants to drag his queen back underground for good

the French are not stopped and the army have to fall back

Everything you could hope for in a thriller: heartbreaking

the body that falls from the Tate Gallery

"In his beautiful new novel Nelson summons the sounds of Black Youth