Something Rotten by Jasper Fforde - ISBN: 9780340825952
Paperback
Shakespeare, dodos, time-travel: Thursday Next faces a rotten reality.

Something Rotten

Thursday Next Book 4

$24.80

  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    9 June 2005

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Summary

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 L…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780340825952
ISBN-10:0340825952
Author:Jasper Fforde
Publisher:Hodder & Stoughton
Imprint:Hodder Paperback
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:9 June 2005
Weight:296g
Dimensions:199mm x 129mm x 26mm
Series:Thursday Next
What They're Saying

Critics Review

Very clever, very imaginative and very funny

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

About The Author

Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring out of the window and sucking the end of a pencil. He lives and works in Wales and has a passion for aviation.

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