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Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde at a book signing in New York July 2007
Born	11 January 1961 (1961-01-11) (age 46) London, England
Occupation	novelist
Genres	Alternate history
Debut works	The Eyre Affair (2001)
Website	jasperfforde.com

Jasper Fforde (born in London on 11 January 1961) is an English novelist. 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]) and the cousin of the author Katie Fforde. He was educated at the progressive Dartington Hall School. Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Image File history File links Metadata Size of this preview: 449 × 599 pixelsFull resolution‎ (1,115 × 1,488 pixels, file size: 776 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) (All user names refer to en. ... is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Image File history File links Flag_of_England. ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... For other uses, see England (disambiguation). ... This article is about work. ... A literary genre is one of the divisions of literature into genres according to particular criteria such as literary technique, tone, or content. ... Alternative history or alternate history can be: A History told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer. ... The Eyre Affair, published in 2001, is the first novel published by Jasper Fforde. ... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... This article is about the capital of England and the United Kingdom. ... is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... Headquarters Coordinates , , Governor Mervyn King Central Bank of United Kingdom Currency Pound sterling ISO 4217 Code GBP Base borrowing rate 5. ... Sterling banknotes are the banknotes of the United Kingdom and British Islands, denominated in pounds sterling (GBP). ... Katie Fforde is an English novelist. ... Dartington Hall Estate Gardens Dartington Hall, near Totnes, Devon, England, is a medieval hall built between 1388 and 1400 for John Holand, Earl of Huntingdon, half-brother to Richard II. After John was beheaded, the Crown owned the estate until it was acquired in 1559 by Sir Arthur Champernowne, Vice...

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. [2] In cinematography, a focus puller or first assistant camera (1 AC) is the member of a film crew responsible for keeping the cameras focus right during a shoot. ... Quills is a 2000 period drama directed by Philip Kaufman and adapted from the Obie award-winning play by Doug Wright, who also wrote the original screenplay. ... For other uses, see Goldeneye (disambiguation). ... Entrapment (1999) is an American film directed by Jon Amiel, and starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones. ...

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, and First Among Sequels. The Eyre Affair had received 76 publisher rejections before its eventual acceptance for publication.^[1] Fforde won the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction in 2004 for The Well of Lost Plots.^[2] Thursday Next is the protagonist in the series of novels by Jasper Fforde. ... The Eyre Affair, published in 2001, is the first novel published by Jasper Fforde. ... Lost in a Good Book is the second book by Jasper Fforde and the sequel to the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next in The Eyre Affair. ... The Well of Lost Plots is the third book by Jasper Fforde and the continuation of the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next from The Eyre Affair and Lost In A Good Book. ... Something Rotten is the fourth book in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. ... First Among Sequels is a comic fantasy novel by the British author Jasper Fforde. ...

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. Its original title was Who Killed Humpty Dumpty?^[3], and later 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 third Nursery Crime novel, The Last Great Tortoise Race, is also due in the future, of which Fforde has said: The Big Over Easy is a novel written by Jasper Fforde and published in 2005. ... Year 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Fourth Bear is a mystery/fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde published in July 2006. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into The Three Bears. ...

"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 has further said of the Thursday Next novels:

"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."

The 2009 book is scheduled to be, according to the First Among Sequels Special Features section on Fforde's website, the sixth Thursday Next novel, entitled One of our Thursdays is Missing. First Among Sequels is a comic fantasy novel by the British author Jasper Fforde. ... One of our Thursdays is Missing is the sixth Thursday Next book, due to be published in 2009, according to the First Among Sequels Special Features section. ...

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. Word play is a literary technique in which the nature of the words used themselves become part of the subject of the work. ... Look up metafiction in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... For other uses, see Fantasy (disambiguation). ...

Fforde has an interest in aviation, and owns and flies a Tiger Moth. Aviation encompasses all the activities relating to airborne devices created by human ingenuity, generally known as aircraft. ... The de Havilland DH 82 Tiger Moth was a 1930s biplane designed by de Havilland and operated by the Royal Air Force and others as a primary trainer. ...

Bibliography

• Thursday Next
  • The Eyre Affair (2001)
  • Lost in a Good Book (2002)
  • The Well of Lost Plots (2003)
  • Something Rotten (2004)
  • First Among Sequels (2007)

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

The Eyre Affair, published in 2001, is the first novel published by Jasper Fforde. ... Lost in a Good Book is the second book by Jasper Fforde and the sequel to the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next in The Eyre Affair. ... The Well of Lost Plots is the third book by Jasper Fforde and the continuation of the adventures of literary detective Thursday Next from The Eyre Affair and Lost In A Good Book. ... Something Rotten is the fourth book in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. ... First Among Sequels is a comic fantasy novel by the British author Jasper Fforde. ... The Big Over Easy is a novel written by Jasper Fforde and published in 2005. ... The Fourth Bear is a mystery/fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde published in July 2006. ...

References

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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
• Jasper Fforde interview with Writer Unboxed June 2007
• Interview conducted by Jay Tomio for Fantasybookspot.com
• A Conversation with Jasper Fforde by Claire E. White