V5R17: Jasper Fforde
Readathon 2025 Week 17, also featuring Tove Jansson, Karuna Ezara Parikh, Shehan Karunatilaka and Aldous Huxley
Dear Reader,
Welcome to your weekly nudge to explore 5 pieces of writing from our library.
Read #1 - The Locked Room Mystery mystery
Jasper Fforde, author of the Thursday Next mystery novels, invites you to step into the role of a detective and solve the mystery of the murder of Mr Locked Room Mystery in this short story.
Read #2 - Vintage Philosophical Moomin Comics About Identity, Belonging, and Why We Join Groups
It’s been 80 years since Tove Jansson first drew the Moomins in her comic strips. Explore their lives in this showcase by Maria Popova.
Read #3 - Post Polaroid: Women in and of colour
In 2016, author and poet Karuna Ezara Parikh and her sister Nayantara started documenting women of the Indian subcontinent and diaspora through their own words and visuals.
Read #4 - Chinaman: The Legend of Pradeep Mathew (An extract)
Shehan Karunatilaka wrote the quintessential cricket novel on debut before winning the Booker in 2022. Get nudged to pick it up through this extract.
Read #5 - A letter to George Orwell
From Aldous Huxley, who happens to be Mr Orwell’s high school French teacher.
That's all folks for this week. Till next Thursday. - N&N