Jasper Fforde

1 universe Last reviewed 2026-10-21

Jasper Fforde is a British novelist who lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales. He spent twenty years in the film business before his first novel, The Eyre Affair, was taken on by Hodder & Stoughton after seventy-six rejection letters and published in July 2001, debuting on the New York Times bestseller list. Its Thursday Next series continued with books including the Number One Sunday Times bestseller One of Our Thursdays Is Missing, alongside the dystopian Shades of Grey (2010) and Early Riser (2018). For young readers he wrote the Last Dragonslayer series, published in the United States as The Chronicles of Kazam and adapted for television by Sky.

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Books

• The Last Dragonslayer (2010) · The Last Dragonslayer Core Canon
• The Song of the Quarkbeast (2011) · The Last Dragonslayer Core Canon
• The Eye of Zoltar (2014) · The Last Dragonslayer Core Canon
• The Great Troll War (2021) · The Last Dragonslayer Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 4 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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