“jasper fforde”

It's Easter in Reading--a bad time for eggs--and no one can remember the last sunny day. Ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Stuyvesant Van Dumpty III, minor baronet, ex-convict, and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered to death beneath a wall in a shabby area of town. All the ev... More

Word-of-mouth among readers often does more to make an author's name than any publicity campaign. That's certainly the case with Jasper Fforde, and The Well of Lost Plots will be eagerly devoured by his ever-growing coterie of admirers. Fforde writes playful and exhilarating books (which make deligh... More

Two years after Thursday Next's Ultraworld adventure, the now ex-head of Jurisfiction returns home. But the Swindon to which Thursday returns is not the one she left, for something is rotten in the state of England.- The Eyre Affair was a New York Times bestseller and a Book Sense 76 pick- The Well ... More

The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with "The Eyre Affair" continues with Fforde's magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next.The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with "The Eyre Af... More

The Gingerbreadman - psychopath, sadist, convicted murderer and cake/biscuit - is loose on the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. Despite the success of the Humpty Dumpty investigation, the well publicised failure to prevent Red Riding-Hood and her Gran being eaten once again plunges t... More

From the bestselling author of Thursday Nextaa brilliant new novel about a world where social order and destiny are dictated by the colors you can see Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, "Shades of Grey" tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. In a society where the ... More

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