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 twelve 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. Visit Jasper's website, www.jasperfforde.com, find him on Facebook, www.facebook.com/jasperffordebooks, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasperfforde.
Fforde keeps the puns and neologisms coming thick and fast while exploring every facet of his novel's intriguing premise * Financial Times * I love to dive into Jasper Fforde's books. They're wildly imaginative but he makes you believe every word. Where else can you encounter a ditzy dodo, a deadly chimera and a straight-as-an-arrow detective investigating what really happened to Humpty Dumpty? Great stuff. -- David Baldacci No summaries can do justice to the sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality of the works, nor to their vast repertoire of intricate wordplay and puns * The Times * '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 * Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure. * Telegraph * Fans of the late Douglas Adams, or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde * Herald * 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 * Praise for Jasper Fforde * : * a zany send-up of all things British * Guardian * Fans of Jasper Fforde's unique blend of comic dystopia and quirky British cosiness will not be disappointed with his first novel in six years * Guardian * Jasper Fforde lunacy at its best * Daily Express * the thriller aspect is propulsive * Times * Make(s) us look at our world anew * SFX Magazine * It's been worth the wait * Oxford Mail * The master of the alternative universe * Press Association * Endlessly imaginative and distinctively quirky, this is entertaining fun * Mail on Sunday * Fforde pours his brilliant imagination into every corner of this world * Daily Mail * Praise for Early Riser * : *