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* AliensInCardiff: Has a tendency to write fantastical scenarios in lesser-known British cities, including Swindon in ''Thursday Next'', Reading in ''Nursery Crime'', and [[spoiler:Rayader, Wales renamed to East Carmine]] in ''Shades of Grey''.
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* AliensInCardiff: Has a tendency to write fantastical scenarios in lesser-known British cities, including Swindon in ''Thursday Next'', Reading in ''Nursery Crime'', and [[spoiler:Rayader, [[spoiler:Rhayader, Wales renamed to East Carmine]] in ''Shades of Grey''.
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** No less than three of his works feature a major ShoutOut to ''Literature/JaneEyre''; the book is central to the plot of ''The Eyre Affair'', Edward and Jane are the names of the protagonists of ''Shades of Grey'', and in ''Early Riser'', the TechnicallyLivingZombies that come about as a result of defective Morphenox care called "Edward" if they're male, and "Jane" if they're female.
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** No less than three of his works feature a major ShoutOut to ''Literature/JaneEyre''; the book is central to the plot of ''The Eyre Affair'', Edward and Jane are the names of the protagonists of ''Shades of Grey'', and in ''Early Riser'', the TechnicallyLivingZombies {{Technically Living Zombie}}s that come about as a result of defective Morphenox care called "Edward" if they're male, and "Jane" if they're female.
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* AliensInCardiff: Has a tendency to write fantastical scenarios in lesser-known British cities, including Swindon in ''Thursday Next'', Reading in ''Nursery Crime'', and [[spoiler:Rayader, Wales renamed to East Carmine]] in ''Shades of Grey''.
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** The Thursday Next series is set in an alternate present in which the Crimean War lasted nearly a hundred years. In addition, Wales has broken away from the Commonwealth to form a Socialist government, cheese imports are heavily regulated (and sold illegally), and literature is more popular than sports.
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** The Thursday Next series is set starts in an alternate present 1985 in which the Crimean War has lasted nearly over a hundred years.years, TimeTravel is possible, and pets from extinct animals born of LegoGenetics are not only commonplace, they're considered pests. In addition, Wales has broken away from the Commonwealth to form a Socialist government, cheese imports are heavily regulated (and sold illegally), and literature is more popular than sports.
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* CreatorThumbprint: Every chapter of Fforde's books begins with an {{Epigraph}} originating from an InUniverse source; ''Thursday Next'' and ''Early Riser'' have excerpts from the biographies of various characters, ''Nursery Crime'' has excerpts of news articles, and ''Shades of Grey'' features snippets from the Rules.
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* CreatorThumbprint: AuthorAppeal: Fforde really seems to like the idea of extinct animals not being extinct, given that everything from migratory mammoths to pet dodos exist in ''Thursday Next'', megafauna are commonplace in ''Early Riser'' (due to the ice age never ending) and the plot of ''The Last Dragonslayer'' [[spoiler:involves the creation of a second dragon]].
* CreatorThumbprint:
** Every chapter of Fforde's books begins with an {{Epigraph}} originating from an InUniversesource; EncyclopediaExposita; ''Thursday Next'' and ''Early Riser'' have excerpts from the biographies pieces of various characters, In-unvierse literature (the former favoring biographies) ''Nursery Crime'' has excerpts of news articles, and ''Shades of Grey'' features snippets from the Rules. Rules.
** No less than three of his works feature a major ShoutOut to ''Literature/JaneEyre''; the book is central to the plot of ''The Eyre Affair'', Edward and Jane are the names of the protagonists of ''Shades of Grey'', and in ''Early Riser'', the TechnicallyLivingZombies that come about as a result of defective Morphenox care called "Edward" if they're male, and "Jane" if they're female.
* {{Crossover}}: Each of his works have elements that crop up in each other, with them all being in distinct settings. For instance:
** The original draft of ''The Big Over Easy'' predates the ''Thursday Next'' novels, so Fforde had almost the entire cast of that novel show up in the third book, providing a meta explanation for how that novel actually got made. ''The Fourth Bear'' mentions that the Rambosians were in conflict with Emperor Zhark, a side character in ''Thursday Next''.
** Sommeworld from ''The Fourth Bear'' and Quarkbeasts from ''The Last Dragonslayer'' both started off as a single-line jokes in ''Thursday Next''.
** Both Perpetulite and the Mildew from ''Shades of Grey'' are mentioned in ''Early Riser''.
* CreatorThumbprint:
** Every chapter of Fforde's books begins with an {{Epigraph}} originating from an InUniverse
** No less than three of his works feature a major ShoutOut to ''Literature/JaneEyre''; the book is central to the plot of ''The Eyre Affair'', Edward and Jane are the names of the protagonists of ''Shades of Grey'', and in ''Early Riser'', the TechnicallyLivingZombies that come about as a result of defective Morphenox care called "Edward" if they're male, and "Jane" if they're female.
* {{Crossover}}: Each of his works have elements that crop up in each other, with them all being in distinct settings. For instance:
** The original draft of ''The Big Over Easy'' predates the ''Thursday Next'' novels, so Fforde had almost the entire cast of that novel show up in the third book, providing a meta explanation for how that novel actually got made. ''The Fourth Bear'' mentions that the Rambosians were in conflict with Emperor Zhark, a side character in ''Thursday Next''.
** Sommeworld from ''The Fourth Bear'' and Quarkbeasts from ''The Last Dragonslayer'' both started off as a single-line jokes in ''Thursday Next''.
** Both Perpetulite and the Mildew from ''Shades of Grey'' are mentioned in ''Early Riser''.
* {{Feghoot}}: He has several elaborate ones throughout his works; one in the second ''Nursery Crime'' book ends with a tongue-twister where the characters BreakTheFourthWall to [[RageAgainstTheAuthor call him out for putting so much effort into such a lame joke]], while ''Early Riser'' has one involving Music/TomJones that lasts through about a quarter of the novel.
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* ThereAreNoGoodExecutives: All the employees of the Goliath Corporation are evil to one degree or another.
* ThereAreNoGoodExecutives: All the employees of the Goliath Corporation are evil to one degree or another.
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** Each of Fforde's books with a Table of Contents list a 13th Chapter that never actually exists in the book.
** Both ''Thursday Next'' and ''Early Riser'' feature Wales as having the tourist slogan "Not ''Always'' Raining".
** Starting with ''Early Riser'', Fforde makes at least one reference to Music/RickAstley in each of his novels.
* SubvertedKidsShow: Characters from children's literature in both ''Thursday Next'' and ''Nursery Crime'' have elements of this; in the former, several Nursery and Fairy Tale characters unionize in an attempt to get new, better stories, and in Nursery Crime, you have Humpty Dumpty as a womanizing alcoholic, Jack the Giant-Killer as a cop, and FantasticRacism against sapient animals such as the Big Bad Wolf and the Three Bears.
* ThereAreNoGoodExecutives: All the employees of the Goliath Corporation in ''Thursday Next'' are evil to one degree or
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* WriteWhatYouKnow: Fforde is a native Welshman, and Wales crops up in most of his works; it's a socialist republic in ''Thursday Next'', the setting for ''Early Riser'' and ''Shades of Grey'' (the latter in a post-apocalyptic state).
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* ''The Road to High Saffron'' (2009)
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* ''The ''Shades of Grey'' (2009) [[note]]aka ''Shades of Grey: A Novel'' or ''Shades of Grey: The Road to High Saffron'' (2009)Saffron''[[/note]]
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* CreatorsThumbprint: Every chapter of Fforde's books begins with an {{Epigraph}} originating from an InUniverse source; ''Thursday Next'' and ''Early Riser'' have excerpts from the biographies of various characters, ''Nursery Crime'' has excerpts of news articles, and ''Shades of Grey'' features snippets from the Rules.
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* CreatorsThumbprint: CreatorThumbprint: Every chapter of Fforde's books begins with an {{Epigraph}} originating from an InUniverse source; ''Thursday Next'' and ''Early Riser'' have excerpts from the biographies of various characters, ''Nursery Crime'' has excerpts of news articles, and ''Shades of Grey'' features snippets from the Rules.
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* CreatorsThumbprint: Every chapter of Fforde's books begins with an {{Epigraph}} originating from an InUniverse source; ''Thursday Next'' and ''Early Riser'' have excerpts from the biographies of various characters, ''Nursery Crime'' has excerpts of news articles, and ''Shades of Grey'' features snippets from the Rules.
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* ''Red Side Story'' (scheduled for 2023)
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* ''Red Side Story'' (scheduled for 2023)
February 6th, 2024)
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[[index]]
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* ''The Great Troll War'' ''Literature/TheGreatTrollWar'' (2021)
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!!The Literature/ThursdayNext Series:
* ''The Eyre Affair''
* ''Lost in a Good Book''
* ''The Well of Lost Plots''
* ''Something Rotten''
* ''First Among Sequels''
* ''One of our Thursdays is Missing''
* ''The Woman Who Died A Lot''
!!The Literature/NurseryCrime Series:
* ''The Big Over Easy''
* ''The Fourth Bear''
* ''The Eyre Affair''
* ''Lost in a Good Book''
* ''The Well of Lost Plots''
* ''Something Rotten''
* ''First Among Sequels''
* ''One of our Thursdays is Missing''
* ''The Woman Who Died A Lot''
!!The Literature/NurseryCrime Series:
* ''The Big Over Easy''
* ''The Fourth Bear''
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!!The Literature/ThursdayNext ''Literature/ThursdayNext'' Series:
* ''The EyreAffair''
Affair'' (2001)
* ''Lost in a GoodBook''
Book'' (2002)
* ''The Well of LostPlots''
Plots'' (2003)
* ''SomethingRotten''
Rotten'' (2004)
* ''First AmongSequels''
Sequels'' (2007)
* ''One of our Thursdays isMissing''
Missing'' (2011)
* ''The Woman Who DiedA Lot''
a Lot'' (2012)
!!TheLiterature/NurseryCrime ''Literature/NurseryCrime'' Series:
* ''The Big OverEasy''
Easy'' (2005)
* ''The FourthBear''Bear'' (2006)
* ''The Eyre
* ''Lost in a Good
* ''The Well of Lost
* ''Something
* ''First Among
* ''One of our Thursdays is
* ''The Woman Who Died
!!The
* ''The Big Over
* ''The Fourth
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!! The Literature/ShadesOfGrey Series:
* ''The Road to High Saffron''
* ''Painting by Numbers'' (not yet released)
!! Literature/TheLastDragonslayer Series:
* ''Literature/TheLastDragonslayer1''
* ''Literature/TheSongOfTheQuarkbeast''
* ''Literature/TheEyeOfZoltar''
* ''The Great Troll War''
* ''The Road to High Saffron''
* ''Painting by Numbers'' (not yet released)
!! Literature/TheLastDragonslayer Series:
* ''Literature/TheLastDragonslayer1''
* ''Literature/TheSongOfTheQuarkbeast''
* ''Literature/TheEyeOfZoltar''
* ''The Great Troll War''
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!! The Literature/ShadesOfGrey ''Literature/ShadesOfGrey'' Series:
* ''The Road to HighSaffron''
Saffron'' (2009)
*''Painting by Numbers'' (not yet released)
''Red Side Story'' (scheduled for 2023)
!!Literature/TheLastDragonslayer ''Literature/TheLastDragonslayer'' Series:
*''Literature/TheLastDragonslayer1''
''Literature/TheLastDragonslayer1'' (2010)
*''Literature/TheSongOfTheQuarkbeast''
''Literature/TheSongOfTheQuarkbeast'' (2011)
*''Literature/TheEyeOfZoltar''
''Literature/TheEyeOfZoltar'' (2014)
* ''The Great TrollWar''
War'' (2021)
* ''The Road to High
*
!!
*
*
*
* ''The Great Troll
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* ''Literature/EarlyRiser''
* ''The Constant Rabbit''
* ''The Constant Rabbit''
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* ''Literature/EarlyRiser''
''Literature/EarlyRiser'' (2018)
*''The Constant Rabbit''
''Literature/TheConstantRabbit'' (2020)
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