Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde is a British novelist born in London on January 11, 1961, best known for his Thursday Next series, which began with the bestselling The Eyre Affair in 2001. After working 20 years in the film industry on films like GoldenEye and Entrapment, he turned to writing absurdist fiction blending literary allusions, parody, and fantasy. He lives in Wales and has authored series like Nursery Crime, Shades of Grey, and The Last Dragonslayer, with his 18th novel Dark Reading Matter published in 2025.
absurdist fiction
speculative fiction
literary parody
fantasy
Early Riser: A Novel
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing: A Novel
The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime
Shades of Grey: A Novel
The Fourth Bear: A Nursery Crime
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing
One of Our Thursdays is Missing
The Eyre Affair
Something Rotten (UNABRIGED) (AUDIO CD) (The Thursday Next series, Book 4)
Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron
One of Our Thursdays is Missing
The Song of the Quarkbeast
The Last Dragonslayer
The Last Dragonslayer
The Woman Who Died a Lot
The Song of the Quarkbeast
The Woman Who Died a Lot
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next Novels)
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, Book 5)
The Last Dragonslayer
The Eye of Zoltar
The Woman Who Died a Lot: A Thursday Next Novel
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing