DIE LETZTE DRACHENTOTERIN - FFORDE JASPER - Luebbe

Magic has been in a sad state in the Ununited Kingdom for years, but now it’s finally on the rise, and boneheaded King Snodd IV knows it. If he succeeds at his plot, the very future of magic will be at risk! Sensible sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, acting manager of Kazam Mystical Arts Management and its unpredictable crew of sorcerers, has little chance against the king and his cronies—but there’s no way Kazam will let go of the noble powers of magic without a fight. A suspenseful, satirical story of Quarkbeasts, trolls, and wizidrical crackle!

Magic has been in a sad state in the Ununited Kingdom for years, but now it's finally on the rise, and boneheaded King Snodd IV knows it. If he succeeds at his plot, the very future of magic will be at risk! Sensible sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, acting manager of Kazam Mystical Arts Management and its unpredictable crew of sorcerers, has little chance against the king and his cronies-but there's no way Kazam will let go of the noble powers of magic without a fight. A suspenseful, satirical story of Quarkbeasts, trolls, and wizidrical crackle!

Magic has been in a sad state in the Ununited Kingdom for years, but now it’s finally on the rise, and boneheaded King Snodd IV knows it. If he succeeds at his plot, the very future of magic will be at risk! Sensible sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, acting manager of Kazam Mystical Arts Management and its unpredictable crew of sorcerers, has little chance against the king and his cronies—but there’s no way Kazam will let go of the noble powers of magic without a fight. A suspenseful, satirical story of Quarkbeasts, trolls, and wizidrical crackle!

In the good old days, magic was indispensable. But now magic is fading: Drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and magic carpets are used for pizza delivery. Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians—but it’s hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. And then the visions start, predicting the death of the world’s last dragon at the hands of an unnamed Dragonslayer. If the visions are true, everything will change for Kazam—and for Jennifer.

In his witty first novel for young readers, the New York Times best-selling author introduces 15-year-old foundling Jennifer Strange who runs Kazam, an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions begin about the death of the world's last dragon at the hands of an unnamed Dragonslayer, Jennifer realizes that everything could change for Kazam—and herself—and that Big Magic is in store. Simultaneous.

€ 42,50

In the good old days, magic was indispensable—it could both save a kingdom and clear a clogged drain. But now magic is fading: drain cleaner is cheaper than a spell, and magic carpets are used for pizza delivery. Fifteen-year-old foundling Jennifer Strange runs Kazam, an employment agency for magicians—but it’s hard to stay in business when magic is drying up. And then the visions start, predicting the death of the world’s last dragon at the hands of an unnamed Dragonslayer. If the visions are true, everything will change for Kazam—and for Jennifer. Because something is coming. Something known as . . . Big Magic.

THE LAST DRAGONSLAYER - FFORDE JASPER - Coronet

It is a time of unrest in the book world. 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 Real World or is this something more sinister?

But all is not yet lost. Living at the quiet end of speculative fiction is the written Thursday Next. who is attempting to keep her own small four-book series both respectful to her illustrious namesake and far from the grim specter of being remaindered.

Despite her desire to stay out of the spotlight, written Thursday is asked by Jurisfiction to investigate a novel that has suffered an in-read breakup and deposited a narrative debris field halfway across the Book World. It's not quite so straight-forward: Someone has ground the ISBN numbers from the wreckage, and all of a sudden the mysterious Men in Plaid want her dead.

As the hunt for answers takes her from the Council of Genres to Fan Fiction and from Comedy to Vanity publishing, written Thursday realizes that real Thursday had been investigating a plot fiendish enough to be killed for. But who is responsible? Only a trip up the mighty Metaphoric River and a visit to the hideously frightening Real World can provide the answers.

With her clockwork butler, Sprockett, and her Designated Love Interest, Whitby Jett, Thursday has to come to grips with her inability to live up to her namesake's talent and prove herself to the one person she respects more than anyone else: the real her....

È un 1985 diverso, in un mondo dove i libri sono il bene più prezioso. E i confini tra realtà e fantasia sono più morbidi del consueto. Mycroft, vecchio inventore, escogita un sistema per entrare di persona in romanzi e poesie. Acheron Hades, criminale diabolico, se ne appropria e rapisce "Jane Eyre" dal manoscritto originale di Charlotte Brontë: a indagare arriva Thursday Next, Detective Letteraria. Reduce dalla guerra di Crimea (che imperversa da centotrent'anni), ha in sospeso un amore. Le indagini la riportano a Swindon, sua città natale; sbarcata da un dirigibile di linea, salta in groppa a una fuoriserie decappottabile dai mille colori. Riuscirà a salvare Jane Eyre e a rimettere in sesto la sua vita? Prefazione di Luca Crovi.

veryone's favourite BookWorld heroine, Thursday Next, is back in this new bestseller. First Sherlock Holmes and then Miss Marple are found dead, stopping their series in their tracks. When Thursday's written self also receives a death threat,

€ 15,20