Something Rotten 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. ; ; Its 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? ; ; 'Don't ask. Just read it. Fforde is a true original.' - Sunday Express

Something Rotten" is presented in a paperback edition."