Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde (born in London on 11 January 1961) is a novelist and aviator living in Wales. He is the son of John Standish Fforde the 24th Chief Cashier for the Bank of England whose signature used to appear on sterling banknotes.[1]

His early career was spent as a focus puller in the film industry, where he worked on a number of films including Quills, GoldenEye, and Entrapment.

His published books include a series of novels starring Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair (2001), Lost in a Good Book (2002), The Well of Lost Plots (2003), and Something Rotten (2004).

The Big Over Easy (2005), which shares a similar setting with the Next novels, is a reworking of his first written novel, which initially failed to find a publisher. It had the working title of Nursery Crime, which is the title now used to refer to this series of books. The follow-up to The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear was published in July 2006 and focuses on Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

• A new novel in the Thursday Next series is due to be published in July 2007, entitled First Among Sequels.

• A third Nursery Crime novel, The Last Great Tortoise Race, is also due in the future. Japser Fforde has the following to say about TLGTR, "Eventually. The Last Great Tortoise Race will be the third and final installment of the NCD series. I have no idea when it will be written, or published."

Jasper Fforde's literary future: "The Thursday Next series has four books, so the next book I'm going to be writing is five, so we're going to go back to her for a book and after that I don't know, I might experiment with a new series or two.It's an exciting time because I don't know what's going to come out in 09. I am going to have a book for 09 but I don't know what it's about, and that's very exciting because where is it, right now? It's going to be there in two years time but it's not here now. I pledged a book a year for 10 years to try and get established and that finishes in four years and I said to myself that I could have a year off then. So I'm looking forward to that."-Jasper Fforde

Fforde's books are noted for the number of literary allusions, wordplay and the tightly scripted plot, and loose adherence to traditional genres. His works do usually contain various elements of metafiction, parody, and fantasy.

[edit] Bibliography

• Thursday Next
  • The Eyre Affair (2001)
  • Lost in a Good Book (2002)
  • The Well of Lost Plots (2003)
  • Something Rotten (2004)

• Nursery Crimes
  • The Big Over Easy (2005)
  • The Fourth Bear (2006)

[edit] External links

• Jasper Fforde's Web site
• Thursday Next Web site
• Home of the new series of Nursery Crime books
• Jasper Fforde at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Jasper Fforde at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview conducted by Jay Tomio for Fantasybookspot.com

Novels by Jasper Fforde
Thursday Next series
The Eyre Affair | Lost in a Good Book | The Well of Lost Plots | Something Rotten | First Among Sequels (due July 2007)
Jack Spratt series
The Big Over Easy | The Fourth Bear | The Last Great Tortoise Race (due 2007)