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How many people want to read about three disreputable pigs and a dopey wolf with a disposition towards house demolition?

Jasper Fforde

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Jasper Fforde
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: January 11
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
London
England
Disposition
Towards
Read
House
Disreputable
Three
Dopey
Many
Demolition
People
Wolf
Pigs

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