Shades of Grey - Jasper Fforde

The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde

From the moment that I read the first page of the first of Jasper Fforde s books (The Eyre Affair) I knew that this was an author who would join the select list of my all-time favourites. And so it has proved. Only the blessed Sir Terry heads him in the list, and he is followed, closely it s true, by Malcolm Pryce, of "Aberystwyth" fame and Brentford s finest, Robert Rankin. From this you will probably have gathered that I have a bottomless appetite for quirky novels. This is the genre in which Fforde excels. His world is that of the unfamiliar set in familiar surroundings. The Eyre Affair introduced us to Thursday Next, arguably Swindon s finest literary ...

The Fourth Bear - Jasper Fforde

From the moment that I read the first page of the first of Jasper Fforde s books (The Eyre Affair) I knew that this was an author who would join the select list of my all-time favourites. And so it has proved. Only the blessed Sir Terry heads him in the list, and he is followed, closely it s true, by Malcolm Pryce, of "Aberystwyth" fame and Brentford s finest, Robert Rankin. From this you will probably have gathered that I have a bottomless appetite for quirky novels. This is the genre in which Fforde excels. His world is that of the unfamiliar set in familiar surroundings. The Eyre Affair introduced us to Thursday Next, arguably Swindon s finest literary ...

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

Spec ops 3 approaches her and asks her to joi n them for a short period to catch the worlds 3rd most dangerous criminal, Archeron Hades. From this point Jasper Fforde takes us on a fantasy ride of literature and art . The Jokes in this book are fantastically clever, most of the character names a subtly funny with reference being made all the time to various Authors and the reason they came into being. There’s a Rocky Horror Esq. performance of Richard the third where the audience actually performs the production. Jasper Fforde has created a spectacular novel here, fantastic in ...

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

Spec ops 3 approaches her and asks her to joi n them for a short period to catch the worlds 3rd most dangerous criminal, Archeron Hades. From this point Jasper Fforde takes us on a fantasy ride of literature and art . The Jokes in this book are fantastically clever, most of the character names a subtly funny with reference being made all the time to various Authors and the reason they came into being. There’s a Rocky Horror Esq. performance of Richard the third where the audience actually performs the production. Jasper Fforde has created a spectacular novel here, fantastic in ...

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

she loves to marry her (having first convinced herself that she can marry him), then she might just be alright... Making any sense yet? Well, surprisingly quickly, it does. Jasper Fforde has not taken us any further than a slightly alternate reality, where the Special Operations Network agents, or SpecOps, are graded from the top secret SO-1 all the way down to ranks such as SO-27 s LiteraTecs, or literary detectives, whose job it is to investigate such matters as who really wrote Shakespeare s plays. (You might be surprised at the answer). Thursday Next is our narrator and guide through this world of politics and literature, and she s a likeable human one. Possibly ...

The Eyre Affair - Jasper Fforde

she loves to marry her (having first convinced herself that she can marry him), then she might just be alright... Making any sense yet? Well, surprisingly quickly, it does. Jasper Fforde has not taken us any further than a slightly alternate reality, where the Special Operations Network agents, or SpecOps, are graded from the top secret SO-1 all the way down to ranks such as SO-27 s LiteraTecs, or literary detectives, whose job it is to investigate such matters as who really wrote Shakespeare s plays. (You might be surprised at the answer). Thursday Next is our narrator and guide through this world of politics and literature, and she s a likeable human one. Possibly ...