Jasper Fforde

Left the industry to pursue a writing career. His first novel "The Eyre Affair" was published by New English Library in 2001 and was followed by "Lost In A Good Book" in 2002.

If it weren't for greed, intolerance, hate, passion and murder, you would have no works of art, no great buildings, no medical science, no Mozart, no Van Gogh, no Muppets and no Louis Armstrong.