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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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'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
A born wordsmith of effervescent imagination (Christina Hardyment, Independent)
Amazing . . . Fforde's literary invention and playfulness is unique (Poisoned Pen)
[Fforde's] brand of inspired lunacy truly stands on its own ... this new book completes his creation of a world of true literary comic genius (Sunday Express on The Well of Lost Plots)
'The pleasure in Fforde's quirkily brilliant books is that they can be enjoyed on so many levels by all ages. For the younger reader they are straight up and down crazy fun in a world where dodos and Neanderthals exist, where cloning is commonplace and where talking monkeys in floral dresses are (almost) part and parcel of everyday life. For the older reader there are the extra joys of literary references, wordplay, silliness and satire, such as in the TV quiz show NAME THAT FRUIT and the politics and current affairs show EVADE THE QUESTION TIME'. - Sydney Morning Herald
An immensely enjoyable, almost compulsive experience (New York Times on Lost in a Good Book)
Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original (Sunday Express on Lost in a Good Book)
It's a lot of fun, and beautifully done, as ever, by Jasper Fforde. (Bookshelf)
the best yet, which is quite remarkable considering how good the others were. (Express)
It is always a privilege to watch the birth of a cult, and Hodder has just cut the umbilical cord ... There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, 'Clockwork Orange' and '1984'. And that's just for starters (Time Out, on 'The Eyre Affair')
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A born wordsmith of effervescent imagination (Christina Hardyment, Independent)
Amazing . . . Fforde's literary invention and playfulness is unique (Poisoned Pen)
[Fforde's] brand of inspired lunacy truly stands on its own ... this new book completes his creation of a world of true literary comic genius (Sunday Express on The Well of Lost Plots)
'The pleasure in Fforde's quirkily brilliant books is that they can be enjoyed on so many levels by all ages. For the younger reader they are straight up and down crazy fun in a world where dodos and Neanderthals exist, where cloning is commonplace and where talking monkeys in floral dresses are (almost) part and parcel of everyday life. For the older reader there are the extra joys of literary references, wordplay, silliness and satire, such as in the TV quiz show NAME THAT FRUIT and the politics and current affairs show EVADE THE QUESTION TIME'. - Sydney Morning Herald
An immensely enjoyable, almost compulsive experience (New York Times on Lost in a Good Book)
Don't ask, just read it. Fforde is a true original (Sunday Express on Lost in a Good Book)
It's a lot of fun, and beautifully done, as ever, by Jasper Fforde. (Bookshelf)
the best yet, which is quite remarkable considering how good the others were. (Express)
It is always a privilege to watch the birth of a cult, and Hodder has just cut the umbilical cord ... There are shades of Douglas Adams, Lewis Carroll, 'Clockwork Orange' and '1984'. And that's just for starters (Time Out, on 'The Eyre Affair')
The fourth book in the phenomenally successful, bestselling Thursday Next adventures, from an author with the trans-genre appeal of Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams.
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- PublisherHodder & Stoughton
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0340835583
- ISBN 13 9780340835586
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages416
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