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Jack Spratt is the protagonist in a series of alternate history science fiction fantasy novels by Jasper Fforde. He was named after the character from the English nursery rhyme. As revealed in The Big Over Easy, for example, he hates eating fat, and was once married to a woman who ate nothing else (hence, she died).
Jasper Fforde (born 11 January 1961) [1] is an English novelist whose first novel, The Eyre Affair, was published in 2001.He is known mainly for his Thursday Next novels, but has also published two books in the loosely connected Nursery Crime series, two in the Shades of Grey series and four in The Last Dragonslayer series.
The Big Over Easy is a 2005 novel written by Jasper Fforde. [1] It features Detective Inspector Jack Spratt and his assistant, Sergeant Mary Mary. [2]It is set in an alternate reality similar to that of his previous books: The Eyre Affair, Lost in a Good Book, The Well of Lost Plots and Something Rotten.
Ripper, Marjorie Dursley's pet dog in J.K Rowling's Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Sharik, the astray dog who undergoes a transformation surgery in Heart of a Dog, by Mikhail Bulgakov; Tentação, the dog in the homonymous short-story by Clarice Lispector; Toto, Dorothy's dog in The Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum
The Fourth Bear is a mystery/fantasy novel by Jasper Fforde published in July 2006. It is Jasper Fforde's sixth novel, and the second in the Nursery Crimes series (also known as the Jack Spratt series). It continues the story of Detective Inspector Jack Spratt from The Big Over Easy.
The Well of Lost Plots was released to positive reviews. Rich Horton of The SF Site referred to it as "a fast-moving, funny, and intellectually diverting novel" [1] and Dave Golder of SFX stated that "a book this self-consciously clever has no right being so much damned fun" and rated it five stars. [2]
The Eyre Affair is the debut novel by English author Jasper Fforde, published by Hodder and Stoughton in 2001. [1] It takes place in an alternative 1985, where literary detective Thursday Next pursues a master criminal through the world of Charlotte Brontë's 1847 novel Jane Eyre.
Jasper T. Jowls, a guitar-playing (former banjo) playing hound dog from Chuck E. Cheese's. [8] Foxy Colleen, a female Irish fox who was a guest star at Chuck E. Cheese's during its Pizza Time Theatre days. [9] Harmony Howlette, a female coyote who was a guest star at Chuck E. Cheese's during its Pizza Time Theatre days. [10]