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Best Selling Books by Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is the author of The Fourth Bear (2007), The Woman who Died a Lot (2013), The Big Over Easy (2006), Jeeves Again (2025), Eiswelt (2018).

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The Fourth Bear

release date: Jan 01, 2007
The Fourth Bear
''Comic genius'' (The Observer) and the next Jack Spratt detective novel by the bestselling Jasper Fforde.

The Woman who Died a Lot

release date: Jan 01, 2013
The Woman who Died a Lot
The newest tour de force starring Thursday Next in the "New York Times"-bestselling series. The Bookworld''s leading enforcement officer has been forced into a semiretirement following an assassination attempt.

The Big Over Easy

release date: Jan 01, 2006
The Big Over Easy
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. Following the pathologist''s careful reconstruction of Humpty''s shell, Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his Sergeant Mary Mary are soon grappling with a sinister plot involving cross-border money laundering, the illegal Bearnaise sauce market, corporate politics and the cut and thrust world of international Chiropody. As Jack and Mary stumble around the streets of Reading in Jack''s Lime Green Austin Allegro, the clues pile up, but Jack has his own problems to deal with. And on top of everything else, the JellyMan is coming to town...

Jeeves Again

release date: Oct 16, 2025
Jeeves Again
FEATURING HUGE NAMES FROM LITERATURE, COMEDY AND BEYOND - INCLUDING RODDY DOYLE, FRANK SKINNER AND ALAN TITCHMARSH - THIS ANTHOLOGY OF STORIES REIMAGINES JEEVES AND WOOSTER THROUGH FRESH EYES. The irrepressible duo first appeared on the page in 1915, coming to feature in more than 35 short stories and eleven novels over the course of Wodehouse’s lifetime. Each story in this new collection offers a delightful and original reimagining of the incomparable Bertie Wooster and his gentleman’s gentleman – seeing them journey to the horse races in Paris, solve puzzles at a wartime Bletchley Park, and even transported forward in time to the year 2025. Frank Skinner Roddy Doyle Alan Titchmarsh Dominic Sandbrook Deborah Frances-White Andrew Hunter Murray Scarlett Curtis Jasper Fforde John Finnemore Ian Moore William Rayfet Hunter Fergus Craig JEEVES AGAIN is a joyful celebration of Wodehouse as a much-beloved British literary icon – as well as a timely and entertaining reminder of the lasting impact of his characters on a whole new generation of readers and writers. *** HEAR FROM THE WRITERS . . . ''A Wodehouse book is a journey into joy.'' RODDY DOYLE, Booker Prize-winning author of PADDY CLARKE HA HA HA ''Anybody who has even a vague interest in good writing should read Wodehouse.'' DOMINIC SANDBROOK, author and co-host of THE REST IS HISTORY ''I simply adore Wodehouse.'' ALAN TITCHMARSH MBE, broadcaster and writer ''To stumble into the world of Wodehouse is like sinking into a warm bath.'' SCARLETT CURTIS, Sunday Times bestselling author of FEMINISTS DON''T WEAR PINK (AND OTHER LIES) ''What Wodehouse is still today, just as much as ever, is funny.'' JOHN FINNEMORE, creator of CABIN PRESSURE

Eiswelt

release date: Nov 12, 2018
Eiswelt
In einer Welt, die der unseren gar nicht so unähnlich ist, hat die Eiszeit nie aufgehört. Jedes Jahr versinkt während der Wintermonate alles in Eis, Schnee und Dunkelheit. Selbst die Menschen ziehen sich zurück und halten Winterschlaf – außer die Winterkonsuln. Sie wachen über den Schlaf der Menschen, denn draußen in der Dunkelheit treiben heulende Bestien ihr Unwesen. Hier tritt der junge Charlie seine erste Arbeitsstelle an, und sie entwickelt sich schon bald zu einem Albtraum. Denn wenn Charlie diesen Winter überleben will, muss er wach bleiben. Um jeden Preis ...

Der Fall Jane Eyre

release date: Jan 01, 2004
Der Fall Jane Eyre
Können Sie sich eine Welt vorstellen, in der Literatur so wichtig genommen wird, dass es eine Spezialpolizei gibt, um sie vor Fälschern zu schützen? Als Geheimagentin Thursday Next ihre neue Stelle in Swindon antritt, ahnt sie schon, daß ihr die größte Herausforderung ihrer Karriere bevorsteht - Niemand anderes als der Erzschurke Acheron Hades hat Jane Eyre aus dem berühmten Roman von Charlotte Brontë entführt, um Lösegeld zu erpressen. Eine Katastrophe für England, das mit dem seit 130 Jahren tobenden Krimkrieg schon genug Sorgen hat. Aber Thursday Next ist eine Superagentin - clever und unerschrocken. Und wenn sie wirklich mal in die Klemme gerät, kommt aus dem Nichts ihr von den Chronoguards desertierter, ziemlich anarchistischer Vater, um für ein paar Minuten die Zeit anzuhalten.

Moi, Jennifer Strange, dernière tueuse de dragons

release date: Jun 01, 2011
Moi, Jennifer Strange, dernière tueuse de dragons
Depuis que Jennifer Strange, 15 ans, a été choisie pour tuer le dernier dragon, elle est la personnalité la plus célèbre de tout le pays. Armée de son épée Exhorbitus, elle décide d''aller d''abord discuter avec la créature mythique. Car les raisons de sa mission sont bien moins nobles qu''elle ne le pensait... " Un J.K. Rowling pour les grands ! " Sunday Times

El pozo de las tramas perdidas

release date: Mar 01, 2008

Lost in a Good Book Special Sales

release date: Apr 11, 2005
Lost in a Good Book Special Sales
The inventive, exuberant, and totally original literary fun that began with The Eyre Affair continues with Fforde''s magnificent second adventure starring the resourceful, fearless literary sleuth Thursday Next.

The Eyre Affair

release date: Jan 01, 2003
The Eyre Affair
In a world where one can literally get lost in literature, Thursday Next, a Special Operative in literary detection, tries to stop the world''s Third Most Wanted criminal from kidnapping characters, including Jane Eyre, from works of literature.

Something Rotten

release date: May 22, 2008
Something Rotten
Publisher''s description: "Detective Thursday Next has had her fill of her responsibilities as the Bellman in Jurisfiction. Packing up her son, Friday, Thursday returns to Swindon accompanied by none other than the dithering Danish prince Hamlet. But ret

Shades of Grey

release date: Jan 01, 2009
Shades of Grey
Welcome to Chromatacia, where for as long as anyone can remember society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. Social hierachy is based upon one''s limited color perception. society is dominated by color. In this world, you are what you can see, and Eddie Russett, a better-than-average red perception wants to move up.

First Among Sequels Special Sales

release date: Jul 21, 2008
First Among Sequels Special Sales
14 years after Thursday Next pegged out at the Superhoop ''88, her Jurisfiction job has been down graded due to a potential conflict of interest, since her previous adventures are now in print. Thursday''s time is spent worrying about her teenage son and tutoring new recruits. This being fiction, however, jeopardy is never far away.

Délivrez-moi !

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Délivrez-moi !
Thursday Next, détective littéraire et agent des OpSpecs, bénéficie d''un repas bien mérité après être rentrée dans l''intrigue du roman Jane Eyre grâce au portail de la prose et en avoir sauvé l''héroïne. Elle a aussi retrouvé l''homme de ses rêves, Landen, et comme un bonheur n''arrive jamais seul, la voilà enceinte ! Seulement, la corporation Goliath ne l''entend pas de cette oreille, et pour la contraindre à libérer le criminel qu''elle a enfermé dans un poème de Poe, le groupe tout-puissant fait éradiquer son mari de la réalité - il serait mort dans un accident de voiture à l''âge de deux ans Seule Thursday se souvient que Landen a un jour existé... Mais maintenant que le portail de la prose a disparu, la jeune femme va devoir subir un entraînement spécial à la jurifiction - la police interne des livres - avant de pouvoir reprendre ses voyages à l''intérieur des chefs-d''œuvre de la littérature.

The Woman who Died Alot

release date: Jan 01, 2013

L'affaire Jane Eyre

release date: Jan 01, 2005
L'affaire Jane Eyre
Dans le monde de Thursday Next, la littérature fait quasiment office de religion. A tel point qu''une brigade spéciale a dû être créée pour s''occuper d''affaires aussi essentielles que traquer les plagiats, découvrir la paternité des pièces de Shakespeare ou arrêter les revendeurs de faux manuscrits. Mais quand on a un père capable de traverser le temps et un oncle à l''origine des plus folles inventions, on a parfois envie d''un peu plus d''aventure. Alors, lorsque Jane Eyre, l''héroïne du livre fétiche de Thursday, est kidnappée par Achéron Hadès, incarnation du mal en personne, la jeune détective décide de prendre les choses en main et de tout tenter pour sauver le roman de Charlotte Brontë d''une fin certaine... " Au croisement du roman policier et de l''uchronie déjantée, Jasper Fforde signe un ouvrage jubilatoire. " Le Monde des livres.
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