Discount Code: 'SUMMER26' For anyone who shops at Waterstones and perhaps wants to preorder a copy of 'Dark Reading Matter', there is a 25% discount code available, but it expires tonight..
Jasper Fforde
@jasperfforde.bsky.social
Fflyer, Ffotographer, Ffather, Fformer Ffocuspuller. Writes a bit. Living in Wales, interested in Stuff. Next Book: ‘Dark Reading Matter’, 2025..
Let's Redefine: Financial terms Liquidity: The song that oceans sing Sub Prime Loan: Buying a top quality U-Boat on HP Short the market: Nail across the Fusebox at Swansea covered foodhall Initial Public Offering: First time streaking Monetarism: The study of a French Impressionist
Servant's bells seen at Nostell Priory. May the 4th be with you.
Tour News: Nothing in stone yet, but it looks as though during October 2026 we'll have a week's tour in the US, likely cities in the East, then two weeks all over the UK. Tour dates will go up on my appearances page as I know them: www.jasperfforde.com/appearances....
Published in the UK on the 15th Oct 2026: ‘Dark Reading Matter’, The eighth instalment of the Thursday Next series. More details: jasperfforde.com/darkreadingm... and for preorders: bio.to/DarkReadingM...
On my Substack: Six degrees of Wyatt Earp open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Six degrees of Wyatt Earp
It's not just Kevin Bacon, y'know.
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October 2026: USA and UK publication of the 8th in the Thursday Next Series 'Dark Reading Matter'
I am grateful to @jasperfforde.bsky.social for "The Constant Rabbit" getting challenged unexpectedly was exactly what I needed
kurivaim 𓃠@kuriva.im · 5mo agoa story in 2 acts: I. "I know, I'll read a Jasper Fforde novel to distract myself from The Horrors. This one has anthropomorphic rabbits, should be fun!" II. "What do you mean this book is about an explicitly apartheid society where the anthropomorphic rabbits are a permanent underclass? 😭😭"
Redefining.. Retiles: Alligator: Someone who makes allegations Crocodile: Call centre for a popular make of shoes Terrapin: One Trillion Personal Identification Numbers Tortoise: What my History master did Cayman: what comes after J, man Anaconda: Sister of Beryl Conda
Latest Substack: 'Satan Announces Planned Expansion of Hell Projected increase in numbers of low-level damned by 2034 require extra capacity, says Dark One.' open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Satan Announces Planned Expansion of Hell
Projected increase in numbers of low-level damned by 2034 require extra capacity, says Dark One.
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Just finished reading Early Riser by @jasperfforde.bsky.social in which much of the population hibernates as an adaptation to extreme winters caused by climate change. Highly entertaining, as are all his books.
Jasper Fforde (@jasperfforde.bsky.social)
Fflyer, Ffotographer, Ffather, Fformer Ffocuspuller. Writes a bit. Living in Wales, interested in Stuff. Next Book: ‘Dark Reading Matter’, 2025..
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Adam@atmylifeoutside.bsky.social · 11mo agoA quiet one at Rhossili this evening with just a handful of Gannets passing offshore and the usual Chough, Stonechats and Linnets battling winds along the coast. Only two Swallows over the Vile. Think the Grey Seals had the right idea, bottling away in the more sheltered coves. #birdingWales
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New Toddlerism surges as average mental age of Homo Sapiens hits all time low
As the Global Maturity Index continues to drop and the planet enters a dangerous 'New Toddlerism' stage, scientists urge citizens in charge of stuff to: 'stop doing dumb shit and act like adults.'
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Consider this a recommendation of The Constant Rabbit by @jasperfforde.bsky.social. How a novel can mesh moving social commentary along with laugh-like-an-idiot absurdism so well is amazing
Ever fancied yourself as a bit of a Hamlet? If your answer to that question is "I'll have to think about it", you just might have the indecisive qualities necessary to become a career procrastinator. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
So, you think you'd like to be Hamlet?
Ever fancied yourself as a bit of a Hamlet? Wanted to strut your stuff around a gloomy Danish castle, annoying your uncle and insulting the king's advisor? Take our FREE test and see how you fare.
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@waterstones 25% discount for many books, including 'Just Jeeves' a compendium of Jeeves & Wooster retellings by excellent wordsmiths (and me)
On my Substack: Film Review F1 The Movie. If you go to see one motorsport movie this year, watch Steve McQueen's thundering 1971's petrol-soaked epic 'Le Mans'. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Film Review: F1 (The Movie)
Warning: Spoilers ahead.
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Actually as the excellent @jasperfforde.bsky.social writes in the brilliant The Constant Rabbit - we are trying to run a 21st century world on Palaeolithic thoughts and sentiments
Alzheimer's TREK26 Update: This is my Mum, in 2020, lockdown Summer. I often used to push an armchair out into the garden for her. Team Fforde are tackling, for the third time, the 26 mile TREK26 challenge here in Mid Wales on Saturday 14th June '25. Link: www.justgiving.com/team/theteam...
On my Substack: Digital photographers 'more boring' than film photographers. Film photographers were traditionally dull, but digital takes it to an all new level, says leaked survey. Leica owners equally tedious, irrespective. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Digital photographers 'more boring' than film photographers, survey shows
Toad News Archive: Film photographers were traditionally dull, but digital takes it to an all new level, says leaked survey. Leica owners equally tedious, irrespective.
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32-ton Hedgehog 'with grudge' sought after spate of car flattening. Police are puzzling over motive as large hedgepig goes on rampage open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
32-ton Hedgehog 'with grudge' sought after spate of car flattening
Police are currently puzzling over motive as large hedgepig goes on rampage
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On my Substack: Astronaut claims ‘Moon Landing Hoax’ never happened. Chris Hadfield, former astronaut and noted public educator finds himself in hot water after making bold and unproven claim. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
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Lost Tech: The Rover Nuclear Powered Car This week we look at one of the most interesting projects to come out of the early British Nuclear Experimental Age: the Top Secret Rover 'Atom Car' of 1952. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Lost Tech: The Rover Nuclear Powered Car
This week we look at one of the most interesting projects to come out of the early British Nuclear Experimental Age: the Top Secret Rover 'Atom Car' of 1952.
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In training for Trek26, a 26-mile walk through the Brecon Beacons in aid of the Alzheimer's Society. Mum had it for seven years, and this is the third Trek26 I've done. Any contribution to the Alzheimer's Society would be gratefully received. www.justgiving.com/page/teamffo...
Hay Festival finds itself foul of Trading Standards and enraged herbivores when popular festival found to contain little content about hay or any other dried grassy foodstuffs open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Enraged Herbivores sue Hay Festival over 'misinterpretation'.
Hay Festival finds itself foul of Trading Standards and enraged herbivores when popular festival found to contain little content about hay or any other dried grassy foodstuffs
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'How the Light Gets in' Festival Controversy: Powys Trading Standards Officers declare that contrary to Festival's name, 'Light clearly not getting in' Full story on my FREE Substack: open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
'How the Light Gets in' Festival Controversy
Powys Trading Standards Officers declare that contrary to Festival's name, 'Light clearly not getting in'
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Literary Festivals - Author Perspective 25 years of the offbeat craziness that is the festival circuit. The things you do, the people you meet, panels, line-ups, greenrooms ... and Douglas Coupland being awesome. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...
Literary Festivals - Author Perspective
25 years of the offbeat craziness that is the festival circuit. The things you do, the people you meet, panels, line-ups, greenrooms ... and Douglas Coupland.
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