Jasper Fforde

Published 25 years ago and now a cult classic, The Eyre Affair is the first book in the phenomenally successful Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde.Meet Thursday Next, literary detective without equal, fear or boyfriend.There is another 1985, where London''s criminal gangs have moved into the lucrative literary market, and Thursday Next is on the trail of the new crime wave''s MR Big.Acheron Hades has been kidnapping certain characters from works of fiction and holding them to ransom. Jane Eyre is gone. Missing.Thursday sets out to find a way into the book to repair the damage. But solving crimes against literature isn''t easy when you also have to find time to halt the Crimean War, persuade the man you love to marry you, and figure out who really wrote Shakespeare''s plays.Perhaps today just isn''t going to be Thursday''s day. Join her on a truly breathtaking adventure, and find out for yourself. Fiction will never be the same again.

Jasper Fforde, the acclaimed SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, invites you to imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see... It's the UK, but not as we know it: civilisation has rebuilt after an unspoken 'Something that Happened' five hundred years before. Society is now colour-based, the strict levels of hierarchy dictated by the colours you can see, and the economy, health service and citizen's aspirations all dominated by visual colour, run by the shadowy National Colour in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, Eddie Russett and Jane Grey have discovered that all is neither fair nor truthful within their cosy environment, and currently face trumped up charges that will see them die of the fatally soporific tones within the Green Room. Negotiating the narrow boundaries of the Rules within their society, Jane and Edward must find out the truth of their world: What is it, where is it and even when it is. As they unpeel the lies that cloak their existence they come to the worrying conclusion that they may not be alone: That there might be a Somewhere Else beyond the sea, and more, Someone Else living there - and observing them all, purposefully unseen. Red Side Story delves into the strictures of a society imposed on itself by itself, immovable dogma and the spirit of humans trying to love and survive and make sense of a world that makes no sense at all. Only it does, of course - you just have to look harder, look further, and forget everything you've ever been told.

''Fforde''s books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted . . . and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett'' IndependentHundreds of years in the future, after the Something that Happened, the world is an alarmingly different place. Life is lived according to The Rulebook and social hierarchy is determined by your perception of colour. Eddie Russett is an above average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder by marriage to Constance Oxblood. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed. For Eddie, it''s love at first sight. But his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where everything that looks black and white is really shades of grey . . . If George Orwell had tripped over a paint pot or Douglas Adams favoured colour swatches instead of towels, neither of them would have come up with anything as brilliant as Shades of Grey.

Nový fantasy příběh o kouzelnické agentuře Kazam. Volně navazuje na knihu Poslední drakobijce. Mystická umění už dávno upadají a kouzelnická agentura Kazam musí vzít každou zakázku, kterou šestnáctiletá manažerka Jennifer Strangeová sežene. Ale v poslední době je magie opět na vzestupu a hrozí, že Snodd IV., vládce Nespojených království, shrábne veškerou moc pro sebe. Jennifer a její společníky čeká těžké utkání s konkurenční agenturou iMagic, kvůli královým čachrům navíc v oslabení. Jennifer Strangeová se ale nevzdá bez boje.

"Jasper Fforde New York Times bestseller-sorozata egy másik lehetséges és meglehetősen bizarr 20. századvégi Angliába vezet el, olyan világba, ahol mindennapos az időutazás, kihalt állatfajok házilag klónozott példányai sétálgatnak a kertekben, virágzó feketepiacuk van a hamisított verseknek, és a művészeti irányzatok harcias hívei utcai csatákat vívnak egymással. Ebben a világban él Thursday Next, a rettenthetetlen irodalmi mester detektívnő, aki élete legnagyobb kihívásával szembesül, mikor a zseniális bűnöző, Acheron Hades a hírnév és a busás váltságdíj reményében elrabolja Charlotte Brontë nagyszerű regényének hősnőjét, Jane Eyre-t... Jasper Fforde nemzetközi sikerű könyvét a Harry Potter-sorozat fordítója, Tóth Tamás Boldizsár magyarításában adjuk közre." (a Kiadó)