Jasper Fforde

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/pP1Gz...

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: www.jasperfforde.com/appearances....

Latest video about a mass signing of 'Dark Reading Matter', published Oct 2026, UK and North America... youtube.com/shorts/VT-Hv...

Let’s redefine. This week: Bicycle stuff Peleton: Pelican's skeleton Pink Jersey: Pride day in St Helier Yellow Jersey: Jaundiced cow Tandem: Sun does this to beachgoers Quick release skewer: For eating kebabs in a hurry Wingnut: Pigeons behaving badly Unicycle: Bikes for getting around Oxford

'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 www.jasperfforde.com

The grandly titled Fforde Library Outreach restarts on September 2nd 2026 at Bury St Edmunds library, 13:00. After that I am at Redhill Library on the 29th Sept and Weybridge Library on the 30th Sept. Come along and support your local libraries. Events page: www.jasperfforde.com/appearances....

Discount Code: 'SUMMER26' For anyone who shops at Waterstones and perhaps wants to preorder a copy of 'Dark Reading Matter', there is a 25% discount code available, but it expires tonight..

Let's Redefine: Financial terms Liquidity: The song that oceans sing Sub Prime Loan: Buying a top quality U-Boat on HP Short the market: Nail across the Fusebox at Swansea covered foodhall Initial Public Offering: First time streaking Monetarism: The study of a French Impressionist

Servant's bells seen at Nostell Priory. May the 4th be with you.

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: www.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/darkreadingm... and for preorders: bio.to/DarkReadingM...

On my Substack: Six degrees of Wyatt Earp open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

October 2026: USA and UK publication of the 8th in the Thursday Next Series 'Dark Reading Matter'

I drew these! @jasperfforde.bsky.social wrote it! Go read it!

Redefining.. Retiles: Alligator: Someone who makes allegations Crocodile: Call centre for a popular make of shoes Terrapin: One Trillion Personal Identification Numbers Tortoise: What my History master did Cayman: what comes after J, man Anaconda: Sister of Beryl Conda

@jasperfforde.bsky.social saw this on ITV and couldn’t believe it. They’re naming fruit…

Latest Substack: 'Satan Announces Planned Expansion of Hell Projected increase in numbers of low-level damned by 2034 require extra capacity, says Dark One.' open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

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Consider this a recommendation of The Constant Rabbit by @jasperfforde.bsky.social. How a novel can mesh moving social commentary along with laugh-like-an-idiot absurdism so well is amazing

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. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

@waterstones 25% discount for many books, including 'Just Jeeves' a compendium of Jeeves & Wooster retellings by excellent wordsmiths (and me)

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/jasperff...

Actually as the excellent @jasperfforde.bsky.social writes in the brilliant The Constant Rabbit - we are trying to run a 21st century world on Palaeolithic thoughts and sentiments

Alzheimer's TREK26 Update: This is my Mum, in 2020, lockdown Summer. I often used to push an armchair out into the garden for her. Team Fforde are tackling, for the third time, the 26 mile TREK26 challenge here in Mid Wales on Saturday 14th June '25. Link: www.justgiving.com/team/theteam...

The time I met the guy who built the Colditz Glider open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Digital photographers 'more boring' than film photographers. Film photographers were traditionally dull, but digital takes it to an all new level, says leaked survey. Leica owners equally tedious, irrespective. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

32-ton Hedgehog 'with grudge' sought after spate of car flattening. Police are puzzling over motive as large hedgepig goes on rampage open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Astronaut claims ‘Moon Landing Hoax’ never happened. Chris Hadfield, former astronaut and noted public educator finds himself in hot water after making bold and unproven claim. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Lost Tech: The Rover Nuclear Powered Car This week we look at one of the most interesting projects to come out of the early British Nuclear Experimental Age: the Top Secret Rover 'Atom Car' of 1952. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

In training for Trek26, a 26-mile walk through the Brecon Beacons in aid of the Alzheimer's Society. Mum had it for seven years, and this is the third Trek26 I've done. Any contribution to the Alzheimer's Society would be gratefully received. www.justgiving.com/page/teamffo...

Hay Festival finds itself foul of Trading Standards and enraged herbivores when popular festival found to contain little content about hay or any other dried grassy foodstuffs open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

'How the Light Gets in' Festival Controversy: Powys Trading Standards Officers declare that contrary to Festival's name, 'Light clearly not getting in' Full story on my FREE Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Literary Festivals - Author Perspective 25 years of the offbeat craziness that is the festival circuit. The things you do, the people you meet, panels, line-ups, greenrooms ... and Douglas Coupland being awesome. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

British citizens fear 'Surveillance Society'. Suspicion of surveillance and creeping government overreach are just a few of the subjects revealed in the nation's intercepted email, phone and text messages, it was reported yesterday. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Easter Substack: Government rejects Expert Advice from Expert Advice Experts. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Quality Street Chocolates deemed to be 'only adequate' by Trading Standards Authority, name change demanded. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Conversations with Cabbies. Lewis Collins * Elizabeth Taylor * Merengue Dance Mix * Armed Strippers. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

It's that time of year when I lace up my action booties and head to the hills to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society - a 26 mile walk in the Brecon Beacons. Any amount you can spare would by wonderful - thank you! www.justgiving.com/page/teamffo...

On my Substack: Let's hear it for casual decency: A toddler in jeopardy and I only get the bronze open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

#bookreview 💙📚 🪐📚 Fan of? -British Humour -Premises you can't neatly sum up -Not sleeping Try @jasperfforde.bsky.social's Early Riser www.jasperfforde.com/riser/riser.... A MC at a hibernation center to keep people from waking up and becoming zombies finds that's the least weird part of the job.

On my Free Substack: Cleaner runs amok in White House: President Trump's condition described as 'Shiny' open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Sunstack: 'Flat Stanley 'Enemy of the People'. Much loved fictional character refuses to surrender to authorities after deportation ordered by judge citing 'seditious plans for a Global Flat Agenda.' open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

Flat Stanley books banned from libraries Stanley Lambchop, openly Flat since 1964, enrages Thingumbob School Board by promoting a flat lifestyle 'inherently dangerous to children'. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Artificial Intelligence 'a really excellent very good thing' says author, and cites bounteous benefits our future technological overlords will bring, and wants this to be on the record. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

On my Substack: Flat Stanley, much loved children's book character is round and not flat, claims group, citing 'global conspiracy against roundness'. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

A few weeks ago, I randomly picked up The Constant Rabbit by @jasperfforde.bsky.social ... And I no longer believe in coincidence. You'd be hard pressed to find fiction better suited to the current moment!