“The cucumber and the tomato are both fruit; the avocado is a nut. To assist with the dietary requirements of vegetarians, on the first Tuesday of the month a chicken is officially a vegetable.”

English novelist

Jasper Fforde is an English novelist. His first novel, The Eyre Affair, appeared in 2001, and he is best known for the Thursday Next books. He has also written two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series, two in the Shades of Grey series, and four in The Last Dragonslayer series. His fiction is known for literary allusions, wordplay, carefully plotted stories, and a playful approach to traditional genres, often with elements of metafiction, parody, and fantasy.