Jasper Fforde is a bestselling British novelist and the author of Thursday Next series. Before his writing career, London-born Fforde worked as a focus puller in the film industry. His first novel The Eyre Affair was published in 2001, starring the literary detective Thursday Next. It was followed by a further six in the series, including The Well of Lost Plots, which won Fforde the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing in 2004. His other series include Nursery Crime Division and the young adult fantasy series Chronicles of Kazam.
Brimming with boundless imagination, linguistic dexterity and exuberant humour, Fforde’s fiction plays with traditional genre conventions, joyfully blending elements of comic fantasy, satire and metafiction.
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