Something Rotten

Pages: 416
Published: 2004
Language: English

Thursday Next returns to her hometown of Swindon, hoping for a quiet life with her son after years of policing the literary world. Instead, she has to manage a displaced Prince Hamlet and stop a corrupt politician from seizing power. It is a race against time to save the world from a literal end-of-the-world scenario while navigating the absurdities of a reality where fiction and fact collide.

Prose complexity: 7/10

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Fish Out of Water Portal Fantasy Reluctant Hero

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Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde is an English novelist, born in London in 1961 and now living in Wales. After working as a focus puller on films including GoldenEye and The Mask of Zorro, he published his first novel, The Eyre Affair, in 2001, after 76 publisher rejections. He is best known for the Thursday Next series, a run of literary comic fantasies set in an alternate Britain where characters can be entered inside books. He has also written the Nursery Crime novels featuring detective Jack Spratt, the dystop...