Something Rotten: Thursday Next Book 4 - Softcover

Fforde, Jasper

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340825952 ISBN 13: 9780340825952

Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks, 2005

Synopsis

The fourth book in the ingenious Thursday Next series, from Number One bestselling author Jasper Fforde.

'Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original' - Sunday Express on Lost in a Good Book

Thursday Next, Head of JurisFiction and ex-SpecOps agent, returns to her native Swindon accompanied by a child of two, a pair of dodos and Hamlet, who is on a fact-finding mission in the real world. Thursday has been despatched to capture escaped Fictioneer Yorrick Kaine but even so, now seems as good a time as any to retrieve her husband Landen from his state of eradication at the hands of the Chronoguard.

It's not going to be easy. Thursday's former colleagues at the department of Literary Detectives want her to investigate a spate of cloned Shakespeares, the Goliath Corporation are planning to switch to a new Faith based corporate management system and the Neanderthals feel she might be the Chosen One who will lead them to genetic self-determination.

With help from Hamlet, her uncle and time-travelling father, Thursday faces the toughest adventure of her career. Where is the missing President-for-life George Formby? Why is it imperative for the Swindon Mallets to win the World Croquet League final? And why is it so difficult to find reliable childcare?

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Review:

Don't ask. Just read it. Fforde is a true original. (Sunday Express)

'Jasper Fforde's imagination is a literary volcano in full spate . . . SOMETHING ROTTEN is arguably Fforde's best book yet . . . Fforde has a knack of creating memorable characters whom the reader greets like long-lost friends . . . Buy it; chuckles guaranteed.' - Independent

the best yet, which is quite remarkable considering how good the others were. (Express)

Ingenious - I'll watch Jasper Fforde nervously (Terry Pratchett on The Eyre Affair)

Jasper Fforde's imagination is a literary volcano in full spate . . . SOMETHING ROTTEN is arguably Fforde's best book yet . . . Fforde has a knack of creating memorable characters whom the reader greets like long-lost friends . . . Buy it; chuckles guaranteed. (Independent)

Amazing . . . Fforde's literary invention and playfulness is unique (Poisoned Pen)

Jasper Fforde has gone where no fictioneer has gone before. Millions of readers now follow ... Thank you, Jasper (Guardian)

'a wild rush of outrageous notions and silly jokes and leaves you feeling pleasantly tipsy' - People Magazine

Very clever, very imaginative and very funny (Daily Express)

The best yet, which is quite remarkable considering how good the others were. (Sunday Express)

Book Description:

The Number One bestseller and the fourth Thursday Next adventure - 'Don't ask. Just read it'.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0340825952
• ISBN 13: 9780340825952
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 416