Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde
Jasper Ffordeis a British novelist. Fforde's first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. Fforde is mainly known for his Thursday Next novels, although he has written two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and has begun two more independent series, The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth11 January 1961
sharks whales thursday
How fishy on the fishiness scale? Ten is a stickleback and one is a whale shark." "A whale isn't a fish, Thursday." "A whale shark is--sort of." "All right, it's as fishy as a crayfish." "A crayfish isn't a fish." "A starfish, then." "Still not a fish." "This is a very odd conversation, Thursday.
cojones rebel zeus
He was, after all, the ultimate rebel -- it takes a lot of cojones to stand up to Zeus.
father games names
Palindrome as well. My sister's name is Hannah. Father liked word games. He was fourteen times World Scrabble Champion. When he died, we buried him at Queenzieburn to make use of the triple word score.
wall way sat
Humpty had always sat on walls, it was his way.
ex-boyfriend lasts five
I collect ex-boyfriends -- and more than five, at last count.
wall color eight
History has rewritten itself so many times I'm not really sure how it was to begin with -- it's a bit like trying to guess the original color of a wall when it's been repainted eight times.
rotten denmark payback
There's something rotten in the state of Denmark, and Hamlet says...it's payback time!
personality quota care
Death doesn't care about personalities - he's more interested in meeting quotas.
scream chimera ifs
If it's a chimera alert, we just follows the screams.
sometimes knows
Sometimes I don't know whether I'm thening or nowing.
To each our own Hamlet.
book awards seven
Who do readers expect to see when they pick up this book? Who has won the Most Troubled Romantic Lead at the BookWorld Awards seventy-seven times in a row? Me. All me.
seven genre sentences
I have the death sentence in seven genres.
cancer philosophy growth
Growth purely for its own sake is the philosophy of cancer.