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..

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...

October 2026: USA and UK publication of the 8th in the Thursday Next Series 'Dark Reading Matter'

@waterstones 25% discount for many books, including 'Just Jeeves' a compendium of Jeeves & Wooster retellings by excellent wordsmiths (and me)

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...

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...

Haiku #haiku

Yes, out today in paperback: Red Side Story, the long awaited sequel to Shades of Grey (sorry for the wait) available in all bookshops and online retailers. #publicationday #redsidestory #jasperfforde

This Pete and Dave's, you mean?

On Jasper's Substack: The public are warned about Spatial Fraud or so-called 'perspective crime' whereby value of goods may be radically altered by misrepresenting their distance from the observer. open.substack.com/pub/jasperff...

It’s the season of foggy mornings, and Hay Castle always looks rather loverly. Well worth a visit. There’s a Quentin Blake exhibition on at present

Jasper Fforde is now on Blue Sky. I work full time as an on-demand taxi service for my teenage daughters. Side hustles: Best Seller Author, Aviator, ex-film crew, wet chemistry photography. Picture: Welsh lake in fog..