“The sky was like ebony and the only illumination was the harsh white light of the central streetlamp, which cast shadows so hard it seemed you might cut yourself on them.”

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.