Red Side Story, 9781444763683
Paperback
Society ruled by color, secrets unveiled, another world awaits.

Red Side Story

the colourful and instant sunday times bestseller (feb 2024) from the bestselling author of shades of grey

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  • Paperback

    384 pages

  • Release Date

    10 March 2025

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Summary

Shades of Deceit: A Colourful Conspiracy Unfolds

Jasper Fforde, the acclaimed SUNDAY TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER, invites you to imagine a world where your position in society depended on what bit of the colour spectrum you could see…

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 yo…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781444763683
ISBN-10:1444763687
Author:Jasper Fforde
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:384
Release Date:10 March 2025
Weight:260g
Dimensions:196mm x 128mm x 34mm
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Critics Review

PRAISE FOR RED SIDE STORY:Cleverly constructed, with engaging characters and lots of good jokes, this sparkling Wizard of Oz-inspired fantasy is … one of the quirkiest dystopias ever imagined * The Guardian *The jokes are excellent, the pacing breathless and the last line a classic * Observer *Great fun and full of quirky worldbuilding detail * SFX *A fun yarn with … a generous dose of rollicking adventure * Reader’s Digest *Fforde paints a Terry Pratchett-esque picture laced with laughter * Daily Express *That mischievous little monkey Jasper Fforde was on his best form yet with Red Side Story … It was possible to invest a little in the characters, as well as enjoying the incessant puns and Fforde’s marvellously eccentric imagination * The Spectator *

About The Author

Jasper Fforde

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.

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