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He worked for many years in the film industry as a camera technician. He was raised in England, he lives & works in Wales. (Publisher Provided) Author Jasper Fforde was born on January 11, 1961 in London, England. He spent numerous years as a focus puller in the film industry, where he worked on films such as Quills, Golden Eye, and Entrapment. His first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001. He is the author of the Thursday Next, Nursery Crime and Dragonslayer series and the novel Shades of Gray. In 2004, he won the Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction for The Well of Lost Plots. In 2013, his title The Last Dragonslayer made The New York Times best seller list. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The Eyre Affair… (more)
The Eyre Affair 15,824 copies, 592 reviews
Lost in a Good Book 9,085 copies, 234 reviews
The Well of Lost Plots 7,905 copies, 183 reviews
Something Rotten 6,832 copies, 145 reviews
The Big Over Easy 5,650 copies, 180 reviews
First Among Sequels 4,984 copies, 165 reviews
The Fourth Bear 4,064 copies, 116 reviews
Shades of Grey 3,968 copies, 258 reviews
One of Our Thursdays Is Missing 2,372 copies, 120 reviews
The Last Dragonslayer 2,187 copies, 137 reviews
The Woman Who Died a Lot 1,693 copies, 91 reviews
Early Riser 1,136 copies, 58 reviews
The Song of the Quarkbeast 941 copies, 64 reviews
The Eye of Zoltar 584 copies, 42 reviews
The Constant Rabbit 537 copies, 33 reviews
Voices from the Past (Contributor) 17 copies, 1 review
Relics, Wrecks and Ruins (Contributor) 7 copies, 1 review
The Last Dragonslayer [2016 film] (Original book) 2 copies

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