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Early Riser: The standalone novel from the Number One bestselling author
Hardback
Main Details
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Early Riser: The standalone novel from the Number One bestselling author
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Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Jasper Fforde
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Physical Properties |
Format:Hardback | Pages:416 | Dimensions(mm): Height 236,Width 160 |
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Category/Genre | Adventure Fantasy |
ISBN/Barcode |
9781473650220
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Publishing Details |
Publisher |
Hodder & Stoughton
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Imprint |
Hodder & Stoughton
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Publication Date |
2 August 2018 |
Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Fforde pours his brilliant imagination into every corner of this world' Daily Mail 'Fforde keeps the puns and neologisms coming thick and fast while exploring every facet of his novel's intriguing premise' Financial Times Every Winter, the human population hibernates. During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is a snow-draped landscape of desolate loneliness, and devoid of human activity. Well, not quite. Your name is Charlie Worthing and it's your first season with the Winter Consuls, the committed but mildly unhinged group of misfits who are responsible for ensuring the hibernatory safe passage of the sleeping masses. You are investigating an outbreak of viral dreams which you dismiss as nonsense; nothing more than a quirky artefact borne of the sleeping mind. When the dreams start to kill people, it's unsettling. When you get the dreams too, it's weird. When they start to come true, you begin to doubt your sanity. But teasing truth from Winter is never easy: You have to avoid the Villains and their penchant for murder, kidnapping and stamp collecting, ensure you aren't eaten by Nightwalkers whose thirst for human flesh can only be satisfied by comfort food, and sidestep the increasingly less-than-mythical WinterVolk. But so long as you remember to wrap up warmly, you'll be fine. Praise for Jasper Fforde: 'Forget all the rules of time, space and reality; just sit back and enjoy the adventure' Telegraph 'True literary comic genius' Sunday Express 'Ingenious' Terry Pratchett
Author Biography
Jasper Fforde spent twenty years in the film business before debuting on the New York Times bestseller list with The Eyre Affair in 2001. Since then he has written another fifteen novels, including the Number One Sunday Times bestseller One of our Thursdays is Missing, and the Last Dragonslayer series, adapted for television by Sky. Fforde lives and works in his adopted nation of Wales. Visit Jasper's website, www.jasperfforde.com, find him on Facebook, www.facebook.com/jasperffordebooks, and follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/jasperfforde.
ReviewsPraise for Early Riser - : It's been worth the wait - Oxford Mail Fforde pours his brilliant imagination into every corner of this world - Daily Mail The master of the alternative universe - Press Association Endlessly imaginative and distinctively quirky, this is entertaining fun - Mail on Sunday Make(s) us look at our world anew - SFX Magazine Jasper Fforde lunacy at its best - Daily Express Fans of Jasper Fforde's unique blend of comic dystopia and quirky British cosiness will not be disappointed with his first novel in six years - Guardian
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