Which sport is played by the Reading Thwackers and the Swindon Mallets in the Jasper Fforde book ‘Something Rotten’?
Something Rotten husband. Then suddenly he is back, but takes a while to stabilise. Thursday must wait patiently for his un-eradication to "stick". In the meantime, she embarks on several seemingly impossible tasks, which include smuggling ten truckloads of banned Danish literature into Wales, tracking down an illegal clone of William Shakespeare, and teaching Friday to speak properly. On top of all of this, Thursday still has to help the Swindon Mallets win the 1988 Croquet Superhoop final to thwart Kaine and Goliath and avoid the impending end of the world (as foretold by the aforementioned prophecy). She succeeds but not without
Something Rotten Something Rotten Something Rotten is the fourth book in the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde. It continues the story some two years after the point where "The Well of Lost Plots" leaves off. The book sees Thursday return from the world of fiction to the alternative Swindon that Fforde introduced in "The Eyre Affair"; she is accompanied by Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, whose excursion from the world of fiction with Thursday forms the main sub-plot. The title is taken from "Hamlet" I.iv: "Something is rotten in the State of Denmark". The story opens with Thursday still in the world