https://www.scmp.com/rss/12127/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com The Big Over Easy By Jasper Fforde, Hodder & Stoughton, $195 Once upon a time, in a mind far removed from reality, an aspiring author dreamed up an alternative universe of glorious absurdity. First, he brought us a series of hilarious novels involving a genre-jumping literary detective, Thursday Next. She inhabits a world in which real people interact with characters from books, where cloned dodos are popular pets and where typical pub gossip is about whether Shakespeare really did write... https://www.scmp.com/article/511239/big-over-easy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/article/511239/big-over-easy?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 06 Aug 2005 16:00:00 +0000