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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nellisir" data-source="post: 8081493" data-attributes="member: 70">I think <s>Thursday Next</s> The Eyre Affair was his first; he might have softened or refined his technique later...but to be honest, he deals with absurdity by adding more and more. "Thursday Next" is the series, and protagonist. There's just a high degree of ridiculousness to deal with. I was actually just thinking that he doesn't really deal in fantasy worlds, or our world with secret oddities - he deals with outright alternate worlds, where England is a subsidiary of Manchester Chocolates & Upholstery Inc, thanks to an unusually good year in upholstery in 1953 and a really bad bet on the Prime Minister's part involving a chicken, two dice, and the contents of a 14thC. soup tureen that had been unearthed in the car park.Just to give a fictitious example.Shades of Grey is really good and less absurd, but part one of a trilogy that hasn't seen a part two in a decade plus.Maybe the two Nursery Crime Division books?</blockquote>