I love Jasper Fforde. I’ve loved him since the first time I picked up the first Thursday Next book, The Eyre Affair. His wordplay, his bizarre parallel world, his (and his characters’ 
obsession with the hidden lives of literary characters … honestly, what’s not to like?
At the end of the fourth Thursday Next book, Something [...]
The Gun Seller is a book I probably wouldn’t have picked up if I weren’t so over-the-top in love with Hugh Laurie. Even then, I might not have picked it up, because the idea of a novel written by an actor does kind of have that ring of, “Well, I’m famous so I might as well [...]
The Big Over Easy is the first book in the new “Nursery Crime” series by Jasper Fforde, the almost unbelievably witty and inventive author of The Eyre Affair and other books featuring the time-travelling literary operative Thursday Next.
I think Jasper Fforde is one of those authors you just “get” or you don’t. If you don’t [...]
