Jasper Fforde


The Eyre Affair (Thursday Next, #1)
Lost in a Good Book (Thursday Next, #2)
The Well of Lost Plots (Thursday Next, #3)
Something Rotten (Thursday Next, #4)
First Among Sequels (Thursday Next, #5)
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing (Thursday Next, #6)
Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1)
The Big Over Easy (Nursery Crime, #1)
The Fourth Bear (Nursery Crime, #2)
The Woman Who Died a Lot (Thursday Next, #7)
The Last Dragonslayer (The Last Dragonslayer, #1)
The Song of the Quarkbeast (The Last Dragonslayer, #2)
Red Side Story (Shades of Grey, #2)
The Eye of Zoltar (The Last Dragonslayer, #3)
Early Riser
Jasper Fforde
magic swirls about us like an invisible fog of energy that can be tapped by those gifted enough, using a variety of techniques that center on layered spelling, mumbled incantations, and a burst of concentrated thought channeled through the index fingers. The technical name for this energy is "variable electro-gravitational mutable subatomic force," which doesn't mean anything at all--confused scientists just gave it an important-sounding name so as not to lose face. The usual term is "wizidrical ...more
Jasper Fforde, The Song of the Quarkbeast

Jasper Fforde
A Quarkbeast is a small hyena-shaped creature that is covered in leathery scales and often described as: 'One tenth Labrador, six-tenths velociraptor and three-tenths kitchen food blender. ...more
Jasper Fforde, The Song of the Quarkbeast

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