Audio books by Jasper Fforde.
Jasper Fforde (born in London on 11 January 1961) is an English novelist. He is the son of John Standish Fforde, the 24th Chief Cashier for the Bank of England (whose signature used to appear on sterling banknotes) and the cousin of the author Katie Fforde. He was educated at the progressive Dartington Hall School.
His published books include a series of novels starring the literary detective Thursday Next, The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots, Something Rotten, and First Among Sequels. The Eyre Affair had received 76 publisher rejections before its eventual acceptance for publication. Fforde won the Wodehouse prize for comic fiction in 2004 for The Well of Lost Plots. The Big Over Easy (2005), which shares a similar setting with the Next novels, is a reworking of his first written novel, which initially failed to find a publisher. Its original title was Who Killed Humpty Dumpty?, and later had the working title of Nursery Crime, which is the title now used to refer to this series of books. These books describe the investigations of DCI Jack Spratt.
The follow-up to The Big Over Easy, The Fourth Bear, was published in July 2006 and focuses on Goldilocks and the Three Bears. Fforde's books are noted for the number of literary allusions, wordplay and the tightly scripted plot, and loose adherence to traditional genres. His works usually contain various elements of metafiction, parody, and fantasy.
