Beyond the Book
Fforde's
first book, The Eyre Affair,
was published in 2001, and was
followed by Lost In A Good
Book (2002), The Well of
Lost Plots (2003) and
Something Rotten (2004). All
revolve around, female
detective, Thursday Next who
lives in a parallel world to our
own where books are paramount,
the Crimean War is still ongoing
and dodos are the pets of
choice. Fforde says that he felt the need to take a break and, to that end, resurrected the concept for a novel that he'd first written in 1993-94,...














