Jasper Fforde

Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet....

Fourteen years after her last adventure, Thursday Next, literary detective, finds herself in an unusual situation her job policing the fictional characters of the BookWorld....

"Hundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place....

Imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see....

Every Winter, the human population hibernates. During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness and devoid of human activity. Well, not quite....

In the good old days, magic was powerful, unregulated by government....

Thursday Next, literary detective and newlywed, is back to embark on an adventure that begins, quite literally on her own doorstep....

Peter Knox lives quietly in one of those small country villages that's up for the Village Garden of the Year award....

There is another 1985, somewhere in the could-have-been, where the Crimean war still rages...

Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey....

Leaving Swindon behind her to hide out in the Well of Lost Plots (the place where all fiction is created), Thursday Next....

The Gingerbreadman: Psychopath, sadist, genius, convicted murderer and biscuit is loose in the streets of Reading. It isn't Jack Spratt's case. He and Mary Mary have been reassigned due to falling levels of nursery crime, and The NCD is once more in jeopardy....

It is a time of unrest in the BookWorld....

It's Easter in Reading - a bad time for eggs - and no one can remember the last sunny day. Humpty Dumpty, well-known nursery favourite, large egg, ex-convict and former millionaire philanthropist, is found shattered beneath a wall in a shabby area of town....

A long time ago Magic faded away, leaving behind only yo-yos....

The BookWorld's leading enforcement officer Thursday Next is four months into an enforced semi-retirement following an assassination attempt....

The final novel in the highly acclaimed and beloved Thursday Next series. With existential questions the least of her troubles and a family to take care of, Thursday must defeat the Goliath Corporation... Will Thursday find her happy ending?

The Mighty Shandar, the most powerful wizard the world has ever seen, returns to the Ununited Kingdoms....

The final instalment of the Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, demonstrating that with a small band of committed followers, a large tin of resolve and steely determination, almost anything can be achieved....

Fünfhundert Jahre nach dem von allen nur als "Etwas, das passiert ist" bezeichneten Ereignis ist eine neue Gesellschaft entstanden...