Jasper Fforde worked in the film industry for 19 years where his varied career included the role of "focus puller" on films such as Goldeneye, The Mask of Zorro and Entrapment. He had been writing purely for his own amusement for several years but always harboured a dream of trading in his film career to become a full-time writer. After receiving 76 rejection letters from various publishers, Jasper’s first novel The Eyre Affair was published in 2001. It starred a literary detective called Thursday Next and became an international bestseller with a following of dedicated fans. The Thursday Next series – currently five books – are all set in Swindon. Progressing along the M4 corridor to Reading, Jasper then wrote a bestselling Nursery Crime series. The Big Over Easy and The Fourth Bear set out to answer the most mystifying questions in criminal history: Who killed Humpty Dumpty and Goldilocks? Jasper lives and writes in Wales and has a passion for aviation.
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