Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde, an English novelist born in 1961, began a career in the film industry as focus puller, yet it seems it was not his vocation. Indeed, Mr Fforde became world-widely known only in 2001 with his first novel The Eyre Affair which actually is the first volume of his Thursday Next series. We do not have a great amount of information about his life and career, for the latter is very recent, but that he has a prolific mind full of surprises and humour.

The Thursday Next series star the eponymous literary detective and is setted in an alternate history where the SpecOps take care of the nation, where dodos are fruits of cloning or where Goliath Corp. represents the “evil people.” Eight volumes are expected and five are currently published.

Several sites are inspired from Thursday Universe and spread the Thursday “spirit.” You can go and see Goliath Corporation's website or even visits the SpecOps' website at 

http://www.thursdaynext.com/index2.html
http://www.specops.org.uk
http://goliathcorp.com/trough.html
http://www.jasperfforde.com/swindon/swindonalbum.html

In the middle of Thursday Next's adventures, Fforde has built another universe and series : Nursery Crime Division with a first volume entitled The Big Over Easy, in 2005. The subject and characters are derived from The Well of Lost Plots when Thursday hides in a book and works for the Nursery Crime Division. This year Jasper Fforde has come out another book we do not know much yet whose title is Shades of Grey.

Now Fforde kepts his readers waiting for numerous books. Unfortunately it has been said that he does not know when the sequels so much awaited will come out or even when he will write them. He leaves us on expectations, unfortunately. But in order not to leave Jasper's universe, take a look at his website at http://www.jasperfforde.com. It is original and funny, just like we may suppose he is.