The Eyre Affair

This debut is the first in a series of "Thursday Next" novels, the second of which is due next year. This book takes the reader to an eccentric parallel world where dodos are regenerated, computers don't exist and policemen can travel across time. This will receive a big promotional campaign and is expected to do very well.

Jasper Fforde's first novel was publishing to astonishing critical and commercial success in 2001. Since then he has written 3 other Thursday next novels, and is working on the first in a new series of crime novels. Jasper lives near Hay-on-Wye and flies Tiger Moth aeroplanes as relaxation.