This looks like my sort of thing. It will be a quick read.

Amazon.co.uk Review
Pirouetting on the boundaries between sci-fi, the crime thriller and intertextual whimsy, Jasper Fforde's outrageous The Eyre Affairputs you on the wrong footing even on its dedication page, which proudly announces that the book conforms to Crimean War economy standard.
Fforde's heroine, Thursday Next, lives in a world where time and reality are endlessly mutable--someone has ensured that the Crimean War never ended for example--a world policed by men like her disgraced father, whose name has been edited out of existence. She herself polices text--against men like the Moriarty-like Acheron Styx, whose current scam is to hold the minor characters of Dickens' novels to ransom, entering the manuscript and abducting them for execution and extinction one by one. When that caper goes sour, Styx moves on to the nation's most beloved novel--an oddly truncated version of Jane Eyre--and kidnaps its heroine. The phlegmatic and resourceful Thursday pursues Acheron across the border into a Leninist Wales and further to Mr Rochester's Thornfield Hall, where both books find their climax on the roof amid flames.

Fforde is endlessly inventive: his heroine's utter unconcern about the strangeness of the world she inhabits keeps the reader perpetually double-taking as minor certainties of history, literature and cuisine go soggy in the corner of our eye. The audacity of the premise and its working out provides sudden leaps of understanding, many of them accompanied by wild fits of the giggles. This is a peculiarly promising first novel. --Roz Kaveney

The Times
'The reader is catapulted in and out of truth and imagination on a hectic, humorous and neatly constructed chase’

I really enjoyed this surreal literary crime world. That sentance is impossible to create to cleary express that the book really is about an alternative world where literary crime is something the government has an entire department dedicated to resolving.
I am looking forward to catching up with the rest of the novels now.

RELEASE NOTES:

This is on the wish list of a Bookcrosser who will be at the British Unconvention... Ta Da!

What a generous soul you are!! Thanks Glitterlover, for surprising me with this wish list book. Hugs!

I finally got started and read my first Jasper Fforde. I thoroughly enjoyed meeting Thursday Next and the other characters (great names). I loved the parellel universe of this book and, of course, the literary references. Great fun and very inventive. I will definitely be reading more of this series.

Taking to a mini-meet with Birmingham bookcrossers at The Handmade Burger Co restaurant in Brindley Place. May be taken away by one of them or released in the vicinity.

passed on to me tonight by candy-is-dandy - this is right outside my comfort zone, but I feel I need to try and read it before Uncon. Not sure what I'm going to think of it.

I generally don't read fantasy type novels at all. I had of course heard about this novel, and know people who love Jasper Fforde, but I had never so much as picked up a copy before. However I will be attending the bookcrossing uncon in few weeks time, where Jasper Fforde is due to speak, so I decided I must read at least one of his books first. One reason I had thought I might actually quite enjoy this book is because I had heard it is very clever, and then of course it concerns Jane Eyre - a novel I have read at least 4 times (and I don't often re-read things).

I enjoyed it - it is very silly - and it is very clever and I loved the character of Thurdsday Next, a detective with a difference in a world where great works of literature are popular culture which needs policing. In this alternative 1985 time can be stopped by Thursday's dad dropping in for a chat. I also loved the idea of people dropping in and out of works of literature - oh if only - the places I would go. All in all great fun, for people who love books and enjoy some literary humor, which no doubt is funnier if you have actually some knowledge of the works talked about.

Will be avl on the book table - and if it doesn't find a new home from there will be released on the releasing walk on Sunday.

I'm glad I picked up this book from the table before Jasper Ffordes talk. It looks good fun!

A wishlist surprise! I hope you enjoy it.

Marsala, thank you so much! I really look forward reading this, and perhaps I will start it very soon!!!!

What a crazy, amazing book! I don't usually read this type of books but this one was so intriguing that I do have to find the other parts of the series too!

Sending to Kanelihattara next.

Thank you Chania :) This may be a very interesting book!

I didn't manage to read this, unfortunately :(

Now this book is going to be sent to sumako, I hope you'll enjoy this! :)

Thank you for a wishlist book!