Jasper Fforde

There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages...

The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt....

Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet....

It's Easter in Reading, a bad time for eggs, and no one can remember the last sunny day....

Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey....

The Mighty Shandar, the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, returns to the Ununited Kingdoms....

Every Winter, the human population hibernates. During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness and devoid of human activity. Well, not quite....

In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government....

A long time ago Magic faded away, leaving behind only yo-yos....

The final instalment of the Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, demonstrating that with a small band of committed followers, a large tin of resolve and steely determination, almost anything can be achieved....

The Gingerbreadman: Psychopath, sadist, genius, convicted murderer and biscuit is loose in the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary have been reassigned due to falling levels of nursery crime, and The NCD is once more in jeopardy....

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed, is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep....

Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job policing the fictional characters of the BookWorld....

Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next....

Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see....

The final novel in the highly acclaimed and beloved Thursday Next series. With existential questions the least of her troubles and a family to take care of, Thursday must defeat the Goliath Corporation... Will Thursday find her happy ending?

It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld....

Jasper Fforde has done it again in this genre-bending blend of crime fiction, fantasy, and top-drawer literary entertainment....

Peter Knox lives quietly in one of those small country villages that's up for the Village Garden of the Year award....

It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town....