Jasper Fforde

We are incredibly honoured to welcome bestselling writer Jasper FForde. The author of The Eyre Affair joins us to speak on his latest, Red Side Story: a dystopian novel inviting you to imagine a world where your position in society depends on what bit of the colour spectrum you can see. Forget all the rules of time, space, and reality, and join us for a memorable evening celebrating literary fiction at its best! We hope to see you there!

Red Side Story

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. 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.

About Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is an English bestselling author of seventeen novels. He is known mainly for his Thursday Next novels, but has published two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series and the first books of two other independent series: The Last Dragonslayer and Shades of Grey. Fforde's books abound in literary allusions and wordplay, tightly scripted plots and playfulness with the conventional, traditional genres. Thirteen years after the acclaimed smash-hit Shades of Grey, which went on to sell over 200,000 copies, Fforde returns to the world of Chromatacia with Red Side Story, a fan-demanded new adventure.