One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing Jasper Fforde Hodder 2011 388 Pages What if characters in books had a life of their own when no-one was reading the books they inhabited? The marvellously named Jasper Fforde runs (all over the place) with this meta-fictional conceit in the inventively whimsical One Of Our Thursdays Is Missing . His BookWorld is a meta-textual realm (a vast planet? dimensional plain? or alternative universe?) inhabited by every fictional character ever to appear in print and where competing genres – i.e. Racy Novel and ...