Commencing the beginning of his chronicles of kazam series on the 1st of january, 2010, this novel saw the introduction of a new fantastical world with both humor and fun. You can have a look at a potted precis of the books. Books by jasper fforde authors like jasper fforde what should i read next register for free. Shades of grey is a dystopic fantasy novel by jasper fforde. Find authors like jasper fforde from the worlds largest community of readers. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading shades of grey. Shades of grey takes place in an absurd dystopia that resembles a mix of brave new world, kafka, and monty python. Jan 06, 2011 having read all the thursday next and nursery crime books by jasper fforde, and early riser, i thought id have a go at shades of grey too. Then in may 2016, fforde replied to a comment on the guardian saying.
Any recommendations on books that read like jasper fforde. But i wouldnt be surprised if it turned out to be the fforde novel which stays in the mind longest and most intensely. His novels include the happiest people in the world, exley which was a kirkus book of the year, a. Fans of his previous work, including the eyre affair and its many sequels and shades of grey, should be right at home. Any recommendations on books that read like jasper fforde thursday next series.
Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read shades of grey. Mar 30, 2014 marchs novel for my genre exploration challenge. The road to high saffron 9780670019632 by fforde, jasper and a great selection of similar new, used and collectible books available now at great prices. The new one, shades of grey feels like later pratchett to me small gods level of anger. As the author of the eyre affair, jasper fforde is an ideal guest to. The road to high saffron 2012, simply titled shades of grey originally is a dystopian novel, the first in the shades of grey series by novelist jasper fforde. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Like, because it gives us a richly imagined world with absurdsounding details, yet it all hangs together.
Also, ben elton has written a few genreish humour books. When i met jasper fforde, he was promoting his shades of grey novel. Reading jasper fforde is like being invited to a literarythemed dinner party. Shades of grey ii either a prequel that takes place before the something that happened or well just carry on straight after eddies marriage. Digital rights management drm the publisher has supplied this book in encrypted form, which means that you need to install free software in order to unlock and read it. Overviewwelcome to the website who i am and what i do. Its well written and very readable as usual for fforde, and like most of his books its based around writing about fantasy dressed up as reallife. In the book s reality, its centuries after some illdefined cataclysm, and the world is now full of strange things like living roads, maneating trees, small gravitydefying relics, and wandering balls of electrical energy.
Does jasper fforde intend a sequel to shades of grey. An astonishing, hotly anticipated new novel from the great literary fantasist and author of the thursday next series and early riser, jasper fforde as long as anyone can remember, society has been ruled by a colortocracy. Eddie russett is a red in a society run by a colortocracy. I finished reading the thursday next series by jasper fforde a while ago and i thought it was brilliant. Readalikes for jasper fforde if you like jasper fforde try. At last, we have shades of grey, and its both like and unlike anything fforde has published before. Fair warning, though, all of his books are exceedingly british, and shades of grey is about as british as a book can be. Next book page detailing what books jasper fforde will be publishing next. Several booksellers told me they gave customers shades of grey instead of. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Top 10 books by jasper fforde best book recommendations. Jane and eddie wont be born for another seven hundred years, but theres still a lot of fun to be had. Feb 02, 2010 jasper fforde, best known for the adventures of literary detective thursday next in the surreal book world, talks to sarah crown about his new novel shades of grey and the boundry between utopia. Fforde winningly mingles enforced orderliness with a brazilesque bureaucracy that spawns the highly regarded art of loopholery in order to get anything done.
Jasper fforde webchat as it happened books the guardian. The story takes place in chromatacia, an alternate version of the united kingdom wherein social class is determined by ones ability to perceive colour. With his now wellregarded wit and intelligence, jasper fforde tackles a new set of books and a new set of themes, with its own characters and protagonists. Rich with the inspired wordplay and sly cultural references for which jasper fforde is famous, shades of grey conjures a bleak vision of humanitys future and transports readers to an utterly original worldone full of outward color, but pitch black at heart. He leaves his readers eager to return to the dystopian world he has created if for no other reason than to satisfy their curiosity about how such a warped society arose in the first place. If you like jasper fforde books, youll love terry pratchett. I like this book, but it has had disappointingly low sales although things are. However, it is quite difficult to describe the genre of the books a bit literature, scifi, fantasy and something in between and i find it hard to find. Jasper fforde offers up some similar ideas but approaches the concept of a.
Welcome to the jasper fforde website overview page. Jasper fforde, best known for the adventures of literary detective thursday next in the surreal book world, talks to sarah crown about his new novel shades of. The thursday next is a series of novels which is a mixture of a pool of comical fantasy, a little historical element with loads of mystery paired with. Jasper fforde is a british novelist and has been awarded bollinger everyman wodehouse prize, dilys award, and crawford award. Books by jasper fforde authors like jasper fforde what should i. Its probably one of the most imaginative books ive read in a very long while. In a world where people live in a collective and have to follow the rules as dictated by munsell life is dominated by the strength of a persons particular colour perception.
Goodreads members who like jasper fforde also like. Shades of grey is the first book in a series, and while fforde brings this novel to a satisfying conclusion, he by no means answers all the questions he raises. Jun 17, 2017 when i met jasper fforde, he was promoting his shades of grey novel. Jasper fforde s new novel has one of the highest, or narrowest, of concepts ive come across in a long time, and as a consequence falls somewhere between sharp. Jasper ffordes new novel has one of the highest, or narrowest, of concepts ive come across in a long time, and. Unlike, because shades of grey is firmly on the side of science fiction whereas his other books id call fantasy. Crawford was given to him for his first novel called the eyre affair. Somewhere in shades of grey, theres a fantastic this book is pure fforde. All jack wants is to help an old couple and suddenly he is in the middle of a brutal gang war. A brilliantly funny and slightly bonkers new novel from jasper. Brock clarke is the author of seven books of fiction, most recently a collection of short stories, the price of the haircut.
Fforde is known mainly for his thursday next novels. Shades of grey is not an easy novel to get through, by far the most difficult jasper fforde ive read so far. Oct 07, 2010 shades of grey ebook written by jasper fforde. Fforde s first novel, the eyre affair, was published in 2001. If you like authors like tom holt and douglas adams you will like jasper ffordes quirky fantasy style. Readalikes for jasper fforde if you like jasper fforde. A brilliantly funny and slightly bonkers new novel from. Having read all the thursday next and nursery crime books by jasper fforde, and early riser, i thought id have a go at shades of grey too. So in that respect, its a bit like jane eyre in a slightly orwellian. The latest book in this extremely popular series, called blue moon, arrives on bookshelves on october 29th. He has published two books in the loosely connected nursery crime series, and has published the first books of two additional independent series, the last dragonslayer and shades of grey. The novel is set on chromatacia a society regulated on ones perception of color. Having since spent a summer holiday in the lake district, hooked on the book and bereft by the. Ill be working on this in 2020 and am not sure how long it will take to write.
Part social satire, part romance, part revolutionary thriller, shades of grey tells of a battle against overwhelming odds. He didnt do a very good job, as he left me with the impression that it would be dull, compared with his previous work. Luckily, jasper fforde has an awesome primer on his book website to help keep things straight. This inventive fantasy from bestseller fforde the eyre affair imagines a screwball future in which social castes and protocols are rigidly defined by acuteness of personal color perception. The comingofage story and manicpixiedreamgirl romance dont need to be much more than icing on the cake to make shades of grey a fancifully satisfying concoction. If you like shades of grey you might like similar books the eyre affair, the big over easy, lost in a good book, something rotten, one of our thursdays is missing. If you thought the thursday next books were weird, you aint seen nuthin yet. A prequel to shades of grey that is essentially a standalone set in the shades of grey world, two weeks before the something that happened, referred to in shades of grey. Charles yu is the author of three books, including sorry please thank you. Yes, more books are planned, but whether any and if so how many will actually be written seems to be unclear at this point. Ffordes latest, early riser, is a standalone novel.