Ever wanted to know what two seconds of a snooker ball look like? Or how to create energy with the combination of pasta and antipasta? Or what the Shrödinger Night Fever Paradox is? Or why the unscrambled egg recipe is the key to time travel?

You could also want to know why Thurdsday Next's third kid isn't named after a day of the week or why The Great Samuel Pepys Fiasco -the fifth TN series novel- will never be read (again).

Maybe you remember Thomas Harry's books before all the jokes were erased or wonder what used to happen before Sherlock Holmes was killed. You could also be interested in fictional tourism or want classics to be rewritten according to readers' votes.

You may want an autograph of Harry Potter; or taste X-14, such a strong cheese it has to remain tied to the floor; or go on holidays in Brindisi with the Cat formerly known as Cheshire...

In any of these cases -as well as in just any case- read Jasper Fforde's First Among Sequels !

Once again, Fforde proves himself truly imaginative: his fictional and transfictional worlds are dense, different, cray, absurd... and so funny. He keeps on playing with his characters, books and readers. It's a real pleasure.

It'll be a long year waiting for the next...