Early Riser

No summaries can do justice to [Fforde’s] sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality - The Times

Reading a Fforde novel feels like taking off on a magic carpet, only to be picked up by another and another and taken on new flights of fantasy … When the plot is thundering along, peppered with jokes, lively dialogue and silly names … you just sit back and enjoy the ride. - Scotsman

Fans of the late Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde - Herald

True literary comic genius - Sunday Express

Douglas Adams would be proud - Scotsman

Ingenious

Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure. - Telegraph

‘Fforde’s books are more than just an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted. They have empathetic heroes and heroines who nearly make terrible mistakes and suitably dastardly villains who do. They also have more twists and turns than Christie, and are embellished with the rich details of Dickens or Pratchett - Independent

Jasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Times bestseller list with The Eyre Affair in 2001. Since then he has written another fifteen novels, including the Number One Sunday Times bestseller One of our Thursdays is Missing, and the Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky.

Fforde lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales.