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Shades of Grey Paperback – 6 Jan. 2011

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Full of brilliantly inventive wordplay and quirky fabrications ― Mail on Sunday

This colour-coded world of black-and-white regulations and heirachies is created with spry invention and wit ― Daily Mail

'Fans of the late Douglas Adams or, even, Monty Python, will feel at home with Fforde' ― Herald

SHADES OF GREY has something of a flavour of Terry Gilliam's Brazil. . .but the novel is much gentler than Gilliam's savage madcappery, and Fforde's world is more old-fashioned public school than bureaucratic nightmare ― Guardian

Full of colourful characters and amusingly bizarre plot twists. . . SHADES OF GREY is a clever and enjoyable read ― SFX Magazine

There are distinct shades of Orwell's 1984 ― Daily Express

A brilliantly written book- full of witticisms, wordplay and puns ― News Of The World

'Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted . . . and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett' ― Independent

'No summaries can do justice to the sheer inventiveness, wit, complexity, erudition, unexpectedness and originality of the works, nor to their vast repertoire of intricate wordplay and puns' ― The Times

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Imagine a black and white world where colour is a commodity . . . It is a world invented by comic and creative genius - and Number One bestseller - Jasper Fforde.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0340963050
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hodder Paperbacks; FIRST THUS edition (6 Jan. 2011)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 448 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9780340963050
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0340963050
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 13 x 3 x 19.9 cm
  • Customer reviews:
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Jasper Fforde is the critically acclaimed author of The Last Dragonslayer series: THE LAST DRAGONSLAYER, THE SONG OF THE QUARKBEAST and THE EYE OF ZOLTAR, SHADES OF GREY, the Nursery Crime books: THE BIG OVER EASY and THE FOURTH BEAR and the Thursday Next novels: THE EYRE AFFAIR, LOST IN A GOOD BOOK, THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS, SOMETHING ROTTEN, FIRST AMONG SEQUELS, ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING and THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT.

After giving up a varied career in the film world, he now lives and writes in Wales, and has a passion for aviation.

To find out more visit Jasper's website www.jasperfforde.com, Facebook page www.facebook.com/jasperffordebooks or follow him on Twitter @jasperfforde.

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