Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde spent his early years as a focus puller in the film industry. It was during that time he began working on writing, trying to find a balance between the genres of Literary and Absurd. This led to his first novel, then called Who Killed Humpty Dumpty which was soon followed by its sequel, The Fourth Bear.

After shopping these around (to no effect) for a number of years he wrote The Eyre Affair, which was published in 2001 and debuted on the New York Times Bestseller list. Six other Thursday Next novels followed, along with the eventual publication of the now renamed Big Over Easy and Fourth Bear, the Last Dragonslayer series for young adults, and the dystopian series Shades of Grey.

Fforde's writing style is based on a concept he calls the "ordinarification of fantasy," introducing fantastic and absurd people and situations into everyday life and having the characters accept them as commonplace and ordinary. It's primarily through a combination of this idea and a unifying cheek and satire that his fantastical plot threads hold together. Jasper Fforde lives in Wales with his wife and two children, and flies his Rearwin Skyranger in his spare time.

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Big Over Easy
by Jasper Fforde
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Eye of Zoltar OSI
Chronicles of Kazam Book 3
by Jasper Fforde
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Eyre Affair
Thursday Next Book 1
by Jasper Fforde
from Penguin Putnam
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Fourth Bear
by Jasper Fforde
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Great Troll War
Chronicles of Kazam #04
by Jasper Fforde
from Hodder & Stoughton
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in Fantasy Fiction (Location: FIC-FAN)
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Last Dragonslayer
Chronicles of Kazam Book 1
by Jasper Fforde
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Last Dragonslayer Set
by Jasper Fforde
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Lost in a Good Book
Thursday Next Book 2
by Jasper Fforde
First American Edition from Viking Press
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Lost in a Good Book
Thursday Next Book 2
by Jasper Fforde
from Penguin Putnam
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
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One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
Thursday Next Book 6
by Jasper Fforde
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Shades of Grey
First American Printing from Viking Press
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Shades of Grey: A Novel
by Jasper Fforde
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for 9th-Adult
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Something Rotten
Thursday Next Book 4
by Jasper Fforde
from Penguin Putnam
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
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Song of the Quarkbeast
Chronicles of Kazam Book 2
by Jasper Fforde
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Thursday Next Collection
by Jasper Fforde
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Thursday Next: First Among Sequels
Thursday Next Book 5
by Jasper Fforde
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Well of Lost Plots
Thursday Next Book 3
by Jasper Fforde
from Penguin Putnam
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in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
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Woman Who Died A Lot
Thursday Next Book 7
by Jasper Fforde
from Penguin Putnam
for 10th-Adult
in 20th & 21st Century Literature (Location: LIT7-20)
$17.00