The series was originally planned as a trilogy, but a fourth book in the series was announced in 2014, The Great Troll War (2021). Two further books have been published in the series, The Song of the Quarkbeast (2011) and The Eye of Zoltar (2014). It is a young-adult (YA) fantasy novel about a teenage orphan Jennifer Strange which has now been adapted for television. In November 2010 he produced The Last Dragonslayer, the first novel in a new series. Shades of Grey, the first novel in a new series, was published December 2009 in the United States and January 2010 in the United Kingdom. The follow-up to The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear, was published in July 2006 and focuses on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. These describe the investigations of DCI Jack Spratt. Its original title was Who Killed Humpty Dumpty? It was later entitled Nursery Crime, which now refers to the series of books. The Big Over Easy (2005), set in the same alternative universe as the Next novels, reworks his first written novel, which initially failed to find a publisher. Several streets in the Thames Reach housing development in Swindon have been named after characters in the series. įforde won the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction in 2004 for The Well of Lost Plots.

The Eyre Affair had received 76 publisher rejections before its eventual acceptance for publication. His published books include a series of novels starring the literary detective Thursday Next: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, First Among Sequels, One of our Thursdays Is Missing and The Woman Who Died a Lot. Novels įforde published his first novel, The Eyre Affair, in 2001. He worked on a number of films, including The Trial, Quills, GoldenEye, The Mask of Zorro, and Entrapment. In his first jobs, he worked as a focus puller in the film industry.

įforde was educated at the progressive Dartington Hall School. He is a grandson of the Polish political activist, Joseph Retinger, and a great-grandson of the journalist E. They usually contain elements of metafiction, parody, and fantasy.įforde was born in London on 11 January 1961, the son of John Standish Fforde, the 24th Chief Cashier for the Bank of England. Fforde's books abound in literary allusions and wordplay, tightly scripted plots and playfulness with the conventional, traditional genres. He is known mainly for his Thursday Next novels, but has published two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and the first books of two other independent series: The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey. Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) is an English novelist, whose first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001.

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