Thank you for reading my books. And buying them. Current: Shades of Grey 2: ‘Red Side Story'. Next: Thursday Next 8: ‘Dark Reading Matter’ US and UK, 2025…
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North American readers: Here I explain about the upcoming US tour for Dark Reading Matter and chat about dodos, grammasites and try to promote my favoured windshield de-icer (no paid advertising) youtube.com/shorts/pP1GzH1Tf…
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Pre-order your copy of @jasperfforde 's Dark Reading Matter from Rossiter Books to be in with a chance of joining a private book group with Jasper in Ross on Wye
Jasper Fforde Competition
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I have evening library events in Surrey next week, Redhill on the 29th Sept and Weybridge on the 30th. For more details go to my appearances page: jasperfforde.com/appearances…
Latest video about a mass signing of 'Dark Reading Matter', published Oct 2026, UK and North America... youtube.com/shorts/VT-HvINn9…
Do you live in the Hereford/Gloucester/East Wales/Shropshire areas? If so, this could be fun. Rossiter Books are running a preorder competition to win a Book Club Meeting in their Ross on Wye branch with unpretentious little moi. Here's the link: rossiterbooks.co.uk/jasper-f…
'Dark Reading Matter' is the 8th and final book in the Thursday Next series, begun in 2001. I'm touring in the UK and USA in October and these are the venues I will be visiting. Full details at jasperfforde.com
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I wrote a profile of British novelist @jasperfforde for @PublishersWkly. He talked literary posers, book crimes & the staying power of speculative fiction. DARK READING MATTER, the final installment of the Thursday Next series, is out in Oct. @soho_press
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Tour News: Nothing in stone yet, but it looks as though during October 2026 we'll have a week's tour in the US, likely cities in the East, then two weeks all over the UK. Tour dates will go up on my appearances page as I know them: jasperfforde.com/appearances…
Published in the UK on the 15th Oct 2026: ‘Dark Reading Matter’, The eighth instalment of the Thursday Next series. More details: jasperfforde.com/darkreading… and for preorders: bio.to/DarkReadingMatter
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'The Ploughman's Lunch' (1983) was just on tv and in the closing credits is @jasperfforde as Production Runner
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Hier gehts zur #Coveranalyse des Buchs "Wie die Karnickel" von @jasperfforde: leserkanone.de/index.php?bef…
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Day 1 of @RoomtoRead global literacy challenge. I pledge to read at least 20 minutes daily through Sept 15. 1st up, one of my favorite authors @jasperfforde #RedSideStory He creates worlds while holding a mirror up to our own, & playing with words along the way. #MakeRoomToRead
Oh!Con, the Outer Hebrides Fantasy Convention is a go for 11th Oct 2025, and I will be there. Website and tickets can be found here: ohcon.info/
Ever fancied yourself as a bit of a Hamlet? If your answer to that question is "I'll have to think about it", you just might have the indecisive qualities necessary to become a career procrastinator.
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Anyone live near Ipswich? I've got an event there next Thursday the 10th but I think it's not been massively advertised - any takers? Anyone?
On my Substack: Film Review F1 The Movie. If you go to see one motorsport movie this year, watch Steve McQueen's thundering 1971's petrol-soaked epic 'Le Mans'. open.substack.com/pub/jasper…