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call the venue to check times and dates before you set out just in case I am kidnapped by enraged
badgers, eager to promote their dangerous monochrome agenda.
If you want me to come and chat at your library or bookshop, I do like to do these things - drop me a line. jasper(at)jasperfforde.com. Updated 23rd Sept 2025: Essex Events Added |
2025 4th September: Newbury Library Event Berkshire, UK 7:00 PM. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 17th September: Seaford Library Event East Sussex, UK. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 18th September: Thame Library Event Oxfordshire, UK. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 2nd October: Masteg Library Event S Wales, 2:00 PM Masteg Town Hall. Support our local libraries! 7th October: Salisbury Library Event Wiltshire, UK. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 11th October 2025: OH!CON Appearance at the Outer Hebrides Comic Con in Stornaway. Website: OH!CON 23rd Oct: Curious Cat Bookshop Frodsham, Wirral, UK. Support our local indie booksellers! More details TBA. 27th October: Leicester Library Event Leicestershire, UK. Support our local libraries! Part of 'Green Libraries' week. Central Library, 19:00. More details TBA. 7th Nov: Adderbury Library Event Oxfordshire, UK. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 8th Nov: Southwold Literary Festival Southwold, Suffolk, UK. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 3rd Dec: Wrexham Library Event Wrexham, Wales, UK. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 2026 10th Jan: Saxmundham Library Event (Suffolk) 2:00 PM event. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 20th Jan: Swansea Library Event Evening event. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 9th Feb: Gainsborough Library Event Community Library, Suffolk. 2:00 until 4:00. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 18th Feb: Bishop's Castle Arts Festival Shropshire 18:00. More details TBA. 5th March: Burry Port Library Event South Wales, 7:00 PM. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 18th March: Sheffield Library Event Carpenter Rooms, 6:00 PM. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 25th March: Burnham Library Event Buckinghamshire. 19:00. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 15th April: Cambridge Library Events Possibly two events, one midday, one evening. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 16th April: Essex Library Events Possibly Billericay and Colchester. Support our local libraries! More details TBA. 2nd-3rd May: Fforde Ffiesta My very own Ffestival, held in Swindon every two years and now in its 20th year. Games, Q&As, readings, arrive as strangers, depart as friends. I shall be there. Ffiesta Website 22nd May: Falmouth Library Event Cornwall Visit Finally! Support our local libraries. More details TBA. 23rd May: Penzance Library Event Saturday - likely midday event. Cornwall Visit Finally! Support our local libraries. More details TBA. 3rd June: Torquay Library Event Back to my old stamping ground. 14:30 More details TBA. 19th June: Letchworth Event(s) Part of month long Letchworth festival. More details TBA. 20th-21st June: Highworth Festival Tentative festival appearance. More details TBA. 6th July: Burgess Hill Library Event West Sussex, 7:00 PM. More details TBA. 8th July: Street Library Event Somerset, evening. More details TBA. 13th Nov: Prestatyn Library Event North Wales, 19:00. More details TBA. |
FUTURE ENGAGEMENTS |
March 02031: Asteroid belt and Saturn (technology permitting) More details TBA. October 02042: 81-year-old Fforde talks to other members of old people's home: "I used to be a novelist, no really, I did. Is it lunchtime?" More details TBA. July 02175: Semi-lifelike cloned Ffordesque replicant to tour Gamma Quadrant in the Cygnus Cluster. More details TBA. Setember 03431: Much improved Fforde cloned back to life to face execution for sedition; all works consigned to erasure. Janfebry 008910: Last evidence of Fforde's books vanish forever with the removal of the 'Formerly Thursday Street' plaque from what is now W23-61 Rd in the conurbation known as EuroWest-79. 00012972: Visiting archeologists from Thraal-7 discover incomplete copy of Well of Lost Plots from excavation in landfill. Deciphering takes seven hundred years and a further four hundred years of academic scrutiny before being accepted as historical fact. |