![]() ![]() Pirouetting on the boundaries between sci-fi, the crime thriller and intertextual whimsy, Jasper Fforde's outrageous The Eyre Affairputs you on the wrong footing even on its dedication page, which proudly announces that the book conforms to Crimean War economy standard.įforde'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. 'Ingenious - I'll watch Jasper Fforde nervously' ![]() My next book to be published can be found by clicking here.īook 1 of the Thursday Next series (2001) Would you go to a bookshop to buy carrots? Of course not. ![]() Please don't buy books or magazines from supermarkets. You can order my books from your local bookshop or online using my Buy the Books! page. ![]() The order is in the order they were published, and should be the order to read, although you can scroll down and jump straight into The Big Over Easy without having read any of the Thursday Next books. This page is really for people who have encountered my books due to a vague recommendation to 'look at the website', and want to know what's going on. ![]()
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