Lost in a Good Book

Jasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Times bestseller list with The Eyre Affair in 2001. Since then he has written another fifteen novels, including the Number One Sunday Times bestseller One of our Thursdays is Missing, and the Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky.

Fforde lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales.


Visit Jasper's website, www.jasperfforde.com, find him on Facebook, www.facebook.com/jasperffordebooks, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasperfforde.

Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original Sunday Express Let yourself be entertained by a witty romp Sunday Telegraph This year's grown up J K Rowling Sunday Times Douglas Adams would be proud Scotsman The reader is catapulted in and out of truth and imagination on a hectic, humorous and neatly constructed chase that finishes by tying up every loose end in the most satisfying, novelistic way The Times Jasper Fforde's fascinating first novel reads like a Jules Verne story told by Lewis Carroll...Forget all the rules of time, space, and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure as Thursday, with the help of Jane Eyre's Mr Rochester, fights a desperate battle in which Jane herself is in jeopardy. Sunday Telegraph Ingenious - I'll watch Jasper Fforde nervously Terry Pratchett A stroke of fantasy genius ... Unashamedly silly, but also marvellously intelligent ... Hilarious SFX An absolute joy to read. Is it a crime novel? I couldn't really tell, I was laughing too much. Birmingham Post What Fforde is pulling is a variation on the classic Monty Python gambit: the incongruous juxtaposition og low comedy and high erudition - this scam has not been pulled off with such off-hand finesse and manic verve since the Pythons shut up shop. 'The Eyre Affair' is a silly book for smart people: postmodernism played as raw, howling farce Independent Compulsively readable ... catnip to book lovers ... totally absorbing Time Out New York It is always a privilege to watch the birth of a cult, and Hodder has just cut the umbilical cord. Always ridiculous, often hilarious ... blink and you miss a vital narrative leap. There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, 'Clockwork Orange' and '1984'. And that's just for starters Time Out Dark, funny, complex and inventive, The Eyre Affair is a breath of fresh air, and is easily one of the strongest debuts in years. Locus A decidedly quirky and strangely thought-provoking debut novel Scotland on Sunday The eccentric epic - A read