Beth asked Nick Harkaway:

How long have you and Jasper Fforde been friends and do you have any plans to collaborate on something?

Nick Harkaway I'm not quite sure when we met. I know where - at Pinewood Studios - but basically every memory I have of Pinewood is swallowed by fatigue, aspiration, randomised lust and surreality. I fell in massively unrequited love with an orange-haired animator/costumer who wore the coolest Vivienne Westwood jeans in the universe, met a very charming young actress named Angelina somethingorother who everyone else was madly in love with and who has gone on to do rather well, and stood in the car park in the pre-dawn with a troop of mounted knights led by Richard Gere riding past me to a catering bus. At some point I aloso met Jasper.

We don't have any plans to collaborate, I think in part for the same reason you're wondering if we might: because our thought processes can be similarly quirky. Working with people you like is hazardous, so it's probably better we just take tea and cake from time to time. I think it would be more interesting to pair Jasper with, say, Ian Rankin, and see what kind of incredibly alarming thing came out of that...

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