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	Interview \| Jasper Fforde
		Fforde's first book, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001 and introduced readers to a memorable heroine, a resourceful literary detective named Thursday Next.
		She is Jasper Fforde's kick-ass version of a female detective, the Sherlock Holmes or Hercule Poirot of literary investigation.
		Her moniker comes from Fforde's mother who used to refer to next Thursday as "Thursday next." On his Web site, Fforde writes that he felt the name "not only has a 'dum-de-dum' ring to it but also is quietly mysterious."
	www.januarymagazine.com /profiles/fforde.html (2411 words)

	The Jasper Fforde Ffan Club - Jasper's Biography
		Jasper Fforde worked in the film industry for 13 years where his varied career included the role of "focus puller" on films such as Goldeneye, The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment.
		Jasper’s second novel Lost in a Good Book was published in the UK in July 2002 and it has built on the amazing success of The Eyre Affair.
		Jasper’s eagerly awaited third novel in the Thursday Next series is called The Well of Lost Plots and is to be published in the UK in July 2003.
	jasperffordeffanclub.com /ffordeffacts/biography.html (483 words)

	Jasper Fforde - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		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.
		Fforde should also be noted for his use of the internet to add a different level to the books at ThursdayNext.com.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jasper_Fforde (531 words)

	Jasper Fforde - Destination Dayton, Ohio, USA
		Jasper, who occasionally lurks on the Fforum when he has time, had even asked to include my dodo on his Readers’ Contributions page.
		By 7pm when the talk was scheduled to begin, the chair to my left was still unoccupied, so I pulled my large dodo out of my bag and plopped her onto the empty seat beside me--to the amusement of the other dozen or so people waiting.
		Over the next few days, I discovered that Jasper had named the small dodo ‘Alan’, and I was tickled to hear that he had been sighted at several of the later stops on the US book tour.
	www.jasperffordeffanclub.com /archives/may2003/Magda-meets-JFf.html (1245 words)

	Articulate: Q & A: Jasper Fforde. September 16, 2006. ABC News (Australian Broadcasting Corp)
		British author Jasper Fforde accrued 76 rejection letters before breaking through in 2001 with The Eyre Affair, in which literary detective Thursday Next is recruited to solve the kidnapping of Jane Eyre (yes, the one out of Jane Eyre).
		Fforde's latest book (which was actually the second he wrote) The Fourth Bear, follows the investigation into the murder of Goldilocks, and asks pertinent questions such as, why were Mummy Bear and Baby Bear sleeping in different beds.
		Fforde took time out of his busy schedule at the Brisbane Writers Festival to talk to Articulate.
	www.abc.net.au /news/arts/articulate/200609/s1742516.htm (1682 words)

	Humourous/Humorous SF/Fantasy Writers - Jasper Fforde
		Sept 21 2006, and Jasper Fforde does a book signing at Dymocks Carousel.
		You won't be surprised to hear that I trucked along with my thumbed first edition - but I also picked up a copy of The Fourth Bear.
		Jasper spent quite a bit of time with each person in the queue, which was great, and we had one of those nutty conversations about hotel toasters.
	www.spacejock.com.au /JasperFforde.html (153 words)

	Jasper Fforde
		What Fforde is selling here is not so much the characters (who are not very distinctive) or the story, as the ride, and more significantly, the world.
		Fforde is a bit too self-conscious in his use of character names.
		On the other hand, Fforde's narrative is genuinely engaging, and Thursday is charming enough, although not especially distinguished as a protagonist.
	www.leftfield.org /~rawdon/books/sf/fforde_jasper (803 words)

	The Austin Chronicle Books: In Person: Jasper Fforde at BookPeople, March 3
		Fforde's claim to fame, a series of novels starring literary detective Thursday Next, recalls Lewis Carroll's cockeyed classic – and not just because of the repeated appearances (and disappearances) of the Cheshire Cat; it's the books' skewed comic perspective, relentless wordplay, and freewheeling surreality.
		In shirtsleeves and open collar, Fforde hardly looked the literary geek his books suggest he is, and his rapport with his audience was as light and easygoing as his attire.
		The ones he chooses to include, Fforde says, are ones he has "a great affection for." But he hasn't been able to use every character he loves.
	www.austinchronicle.com /gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid:201731 (442 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Meet the Writers
		A former Hollywood film exec, Jasper Fforde has switched from the silver screen to the page, earning a reputation as a "grown up J. Rowling" with his literary fantasies The Eyre Affair and Lost in a Good Book.
		Fforde revealed in our interview that "The names of my editors and agents are all hidden in the text of my books -- sometimes as anagrams, other times spelt out but bisected by punctuation.
		Fforde presents the latest adventures of literary sleuth Thursday Next as she chases down some of the best-loved characters in fiction, fighting dangerous foes and making friends along the way.
	www.barnesandnoble.com /writers/writer.asp?z=y&vcqty=1&cid=1022595 (306 words)

	Bookreporter.com - THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS by Jasper Fforde
		You don't have to have read Jasper Fforde's two previous novels in the Thursday Next series to enjoy his latest, THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS; he kindly provides a plot synopsis.
		In THE EYRE AFFAIR Fforde introduced his main character, Thursday Next, a literary detective who rescues a kidnapped Jane Eyre and returns her to Emily Bronte's novel.
		Fforde gently subverts this trend by mixing the tactile elements of storytelling with the conceptual, creating a playful metaphysics, a literary version of The Matrix.
	www.bookreporter.com /reviews/0143034359.asp (631 words)

	Jasper Fforde: The Eyre Affair
		In the course of her adventures, Fforde introduces a variety of eccentric characters ranging from Thursday’s Uncle Mycroft who is this world’s answer to Thomas Edison and “Q” to the enigmatic Goliath Corporation front man Jack Schitt.
		Given the size of Fforde’s cast and the caricature features he provides so many of the characters with, it is to his credit that he manages to imbue almost all of his characters with a sense of humanity.
		Fforde’s image of the world of literature is one of the most realized pieces of background in the novel.
	www.sfsite.com /~silverag/fforde.html (541 words)

	Amazon.de: The Big Over Easy.: English Books: Jasper Fforde (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fforde’s speciality has long been the outrageous teasing of narrative forms, and there's a measure of that here, although more disciplined than in earlier books.
		Wer verlangt, dass Fforde sich noch mal selber Ã¼bertrifft, besser lassen.
		Was bei wohl den meisten anderen zu einem auf Tantiemen schielenden Abklatsch wÃ¼rde, gelingt bei Jasper FForde.
	www.amazon.de /Big-Over-Easy-Jasper-Fforde/dp/0340835699 (2071 words)

	Steven Wu's Book Reviews: Eyre Affair, The (Jasper Fforde)
		Jasper Fforde's The Eyre Affair, the first in a series, takes place in a madcap, slightly incoherent alternate universe where the Crimean War never ended, time travel is possible (and, like all good things, bureaucratized), and--most importantly--books are the most important things in the world.
		Although Fforde has clearly lavished a great deal of attention on his universe, he is vastly unconcerned with such other formalities as plotting, continuity, or realism.
		Fforde is having so much fun--and making us have so much fun--that all of these flaws seem too nitpicky to even notice.
	www.scwu.com /bookreviews/h/FfordeJasperEyreAffairThe.shtml (633 words)

	Jasper Fforde on 43 People
		' class='external-link'>http://www.jasperfforde.com> Jasper Fforde Jasper Fforde (born in London on January 11, 1961) is a novelist and aviator from Stroud in Gloucestershire, UK.
		Mr Fforde’s books are noted for the number of literary allusions, wordplay and the tightly scripted plot, and also the impossibility of deciding which genre they fit into.
		Mr Fforde should also be noted for his use of the internet to add a different level to the books at ThursdayNext.com and talks directly to his fans through comments on the Fforum, which has attracted a small community producing parodies and nonsense roughly connected to the ‘Nextian Universe’.
	www.43people.com /profile/view/98228 (328 words)

	Jasper Fforde Quizzes and Jasper Fforde Trivia -- FunTrivia
		This quiz is about Jasper Fforde's "Lost in a Good Book", specifically about the US version.
		This quiz is about Jasper Fforde's "The Eyre Affair", specifically about the US version.
		Jasper Fforde answers this perennial dilemma in his novel, 'The Big Over Easy'.
	www.funtrivia.com /ql.cfm?cat=14454 (429 words)

	Fforde fiesta \| Features \| Books \| Arts \| Telegraph
		Jasper Fforde may be big in fantasy but he's a demi-God in Swindon, where streets are named after his characters.
		With his neatly cut brown hair, china blue eyes and finely chiselled features, Jasper Fforde appears to be the picture of mildness.
		There are websites dedicated to his work, a whole range of accompanying merchandise, as well as a Fforde festival held every two years in which obsessives from all over the planet can gather, exchange notes and re-enact scenes from his books.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2006/07/02/svjasperfforde02.xml (517 words)

	Something Rotten - Reviewed by Colleen Mondor - Eclectica Magazine v8n3
		Fforde has created the ultimate literary playground and using the framework of Thursday and her adventures in "SpecOps," he has literally anywhere to go.
		Thursday's husband was eradicated through time travel murder when he was two, although she was able to maintain her pregnancy even after he "died." The relationship between Thursday and Landon has been a critical part of the plot since the very beginning, and he was sorely missed in the third book.
		On top of all this, Fforde has also given himself the opportunity to run full tilt through the electoral process with one particularly hilarious presidential debate in which the candidates are given points by best evading the questions.
	www.eclectica.org /v8n3/mondor_fforde.html (1559 words)

	Jasper Fforde Something Rotten Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Fforde's fourth outing is every bit as fresh as the first three, and it's something more as well.
		Fforde focuses on the power of the media to manipulate the masses, an appropriate target for a society steeped in literature.
		The key to Fforde's success is the assured, entertaining voice of Thursday Next, drawing you not only into her world but her life.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/2005/fforde-something_rotten.htm (775 words)

	On the Spot at Fantasybookspot: Jasper Fforde \| Fantasybookspot
		Author, Jasper Fforde was kind enough to agree to particpate On the Spot and aside from letting me know what I have been missing out on, talks about Lewis Carroll, and his top ten favorite books.
		Jasper Fforde- The Big Over Easy: A Nursery Crime, although referred to in one of the Thursday Next novels, is entirely stand-alone and does not require any knowledge of the Thursday Next books at all.
		Jasper Fforde- I'm always amused by writers who turn around and bemoan the moviemakers for wrecking their work, but you take that very great risk when you accept their money - there can't be any writers around who don't know what a complete pig's ear producers can make of a decent book.
	www.fantasybookspot.com /?q=node/view/223 (2103 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Books: The Well of Lost Plots, by Jasper Fforde, Paperback, Reprint
		Fforde has settled comfortably into series mode, producing another fun romp in an alternate universe where books are more real than reality; there's a pun on every other page and a galaxy of literary and pop references to keep the reader's head spinning.
		Jasper's ability to beg, borrow, and steal from all literature genres keeps the book moving smoothly and provides funny tidbits for aficionados of classic literature (and not-so-classic literature in some cases).
		Jasper Fforde is at his lampooning best as nothing is sacred for readers who appreciate sharp slapstick syntax-slaughtering stories snd will want to get LOST IN A GOOD BOOK...................................
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbninquiry.asp?ean=9780143034353&pwb=1&z=y (2050 words)

	Jasper Fforde ‘The Eyre Affair’ Reviewed by Rick Kleffel
		Stringing up the thinnest of high wires, Fforde manages to charge across several Grand Canyons' worth of gaping abyss, confidently taking the reader where no-one would expect to be able to go.
		Yes, it sounds improbable, but Fforde brings it and his heroine, the feisty literary detective Thursday Next confidently to life.
		She rapidly finds herself thrown into the most difficult case of her career, pursuing an arch villain who is stealing author's original manuscripts, then kidnapping characters from them and holding the world at ransom if they want their precious books restored.
	trashotron.com /agony/reviews/fforde-the_eyre_affair.htm (602 words)

	Amazon.ca: Eyre Affair: Cassette: Books: Jasper Fforde (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Jasper Fforde is not only up to the task, he exceeds all expectations.
		Jasper Fforde has written a laugh-out-loud romp through an alternative Britain where fanatical groups form around various writers such as Milton, Bacon, and Shakespeare, time travel is possible, and the extinct Dodo bird is the pet of choice.
		Fforde works in a lot of sly jokes through unusual names (Braxton Hicks, Millon da Floss), and the abundant literary allusions are enough to delight any book lover.
	www.amazon.ca /Eyre-Affair-Cassette-Jasper-Fforde/dp/1565115457 (1973 words)

	Metroactive Books \| Jasper Fforde
		Jasper Fforde burst onto the scene in 2001 with The Eyre Affair, a wonderfully quirky, intelligent and hilarious novel about "Literary Detective" Thursday Next.
		Set in a 1984 where novels and literature have the influence in society that movies have in ours, Fforde's heroine found herself with the ability to actually enter novels and rescue characters who might otherwise be lost to literary history.
		Fforde will be in town on July 30 to bring his unique form of fiction to local readers.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/cruz/07.20.05/fforde-0529.html (1274 words)

	BookPage Interview March 2004: By Jasper Fforde
		In his latest novel, Fforde chose to virtually suspend the series' storyline involving Next, her time-traveling Uncle Mycroft and missing husband Landen Parke-Laine in order to get downright daffy with the inner workings of the Well of Lost Plots.
		Fforde's fondness for puns is reminiscent of the late, great Douglas Adams of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy fame.
		In each outing, Fforde selects major works from the Western literary canon around which to weave his merriment: Bronte's Jane Eyre in his debut; works by Poe (The Raven), Austen (Sense and Sensibility) and Carroll (Alice in Wonderland) in Lost in a Good Book, and Wuthering Heights in his latest.
	www.bookpage.com /0403bp/jasper_fforde.html (999 words)

	Gothamist: The Books of Jasper Fforde
		Gothamist has been hearing a lot about Jasper Fforde lately, and Newsday has a feature about the British author (whose background includes stints as a film cameraman and living in a family of Oxonians).
		Consider what Fforde is juggling: Time-travel, newly discovered Shakespeare plays, a machine enabling people to enter classic works of fiction and interact with characters, Ice Age mammoths and 20th century Orwellian bureaucracy - all these elements coexist in the same fictional universe.
		Fforde's book, The Eyre Affair was recommended to me by my boss.
	www.gothamist.com /2003/04/30/the_books_of_jasper_fforde.php (312 words)

	Jasper Fforde
		Jasper Fforde is yet another very exciting new author who with his first book, The Eyre Affair, has laid the foundations of very promising career.
		British, Fforde spent most of his childhood in Wales and has worked in the movie business for twenty years in role that he described as "focus puller".
		In this utterly original and wonderfully funny first novel, Fforde has created a fiesty, loveable heroine and a plot of such richness and ingenuity that it will take your breath away.
	www.bastulli.com /Fforde/Fforde.htm (314 words)

	Amazon.ca: Eyre Affair: Books: Jasper Fforde (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Fforde's heroine, Thursday Next, lives in a world where time and reality are endlessly mutable--someone has ensured that the Crimean War never ended for example--a world policed by men like her disgraced father, whose name has been edited out of existence.
		Fforde is endlessly inventive: his heroine's utter unconcern about the strangeness of the world she inhabits keeps the reader perpetually double-taking as minor certainties of history, literature and cuisine go soggy in the corner of our eye.
		Jasper Fforde's first novel is a slightly frothy, book-hopping, tongue-in-cheek novel.
	www.amazon.ca /Eyre-Affair-Jasper-Fforde/dp/034073356X (1840 words)

	The Jasper Fforde Ffan Club - Author of the popular Thursday Next series.
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		This site does not necessarily represent the views of Jasper Fforde or JFFC - so you might as well ignore it.
		All other images © 2006 Jasper Fforde Ffan Club and Twila Davis Reed unless otherwise noted.
	www.jasperffordeffanclub.com (190 words)

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