Books by Jasper Fforde
“This is the story of Tuesday Next, who is a literary detective. She lives in an alternate reality where reading is much more core to day-to-day life than it is in our own world, and the plot concerns the abduction of Jane Eyre from her own book. Tuesday Next is a detective who can move between books. So can the villains of the piece. The whole thing is just completely wonderful. If you’re a fan of reading, it’s wonderful, not least because there are a vast number of references to other works of fiction scattered through the pages. But you don’t have to have read everything to enjoy The Eyre Affair and all of its sequels” Read more...
Andrew Hunter Murray, Comedians & Humorist
The Well of Lost Plots
by Jasper Fforde
🏆 Winner of the 2004 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
The third book in the Thursday Next series, which takes a satirical approach to the crime and thriller genre. Thursday, the lead investigator, visits 'the well of lost plots', where stories goes to die—and finds herself trapped in a complex web of fiction. Gloriously silly.
Interviews where books by Jasper Fforde were recommended
The Funniest Books of the 21st Century
This year, to mark its 25th anniversary, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction set out to find the funniest book of the last twenty-five years. We asked comedian Tatty Macleod, one of the judges, about the process of sifting through 25 previous winners to find the funniest book of the 21st century.
Five Funny Sci Fi Books, recommended by Andrew Hunter Murray
Sci fi with a touch of humour can help us explore the oddities of existence, argues bestselling author Andrew Hunter Murray. He picks five books that made him laugh, from dystopias to outer space to crime thrillers, each with a unique perspective to make us chuckle – sometimes at ourselves.
