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is created - Thursday Next, Literary Detective and soon-to-be one parent family, ponders her next move from inside an unpublished novel of dubious merit entitled Caversham Heights.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 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 beggining of a golden age in fictional narrative, then why are Jursifiction 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 the upgrade entails - and do battle with an old enemy intent on playing havoc with her memories.

This is the third book in the Thursday Next series of books. I haven't even read the first yet (I had to order it from Amazon today as it was out of stock from the place I bought this). The reason I've bought them all is the preamble on the second book, and The Eyre Affair's high recommendation from none other than Terry Pratchett. Can I really turn down the opportunity to discover another cool author? Hell no! I love the idea of detective stories taking place within the pages of stories I love, and it's captured my imagination so much that I have to read these books as soon as I'm able. They sound like such a treat!