Photo: Self portrait
Jasper Fforde is a fantasy, science-fiction, comedy and crime (usually all at once!) novelist who lives in Wales. His latest book, Early Riser, is a dark, and very funny, tale of a world in which humans have always hibernated. Jasper's Thursday Next series and his Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey books have won him ardent fans, many of whom gather for a regular convention in his honour - which he also attends - called the Fforde Ffiesta; held in the English city of Swindon, it celebrates the absurd in Jasper's work.
