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'America was never innocent.'

Thus begins the Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy. It's James Ellroy's pop history of the 1960s, his...

In 1914 Paul Baumer and his classmates are marched to the local recruiting office by a sentimentally patriotic form-master. On a...

When Catherine Sloper falls for Maurice Townsend, her father, a wealthy New York doctor, believes that Townsend is a fortune...

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is Anne Bronte's second and most celebrated novel. Set in the dramatic northern landscape made...

In this remarkable trilogy, Richard Ford creates one of the most enduring and empathetic characters in contemporary American...

Readers everywhere were introduced to the work of Irene Nemirovsky through the publication of her long-lost masterpiece, Suite...

Wodehouse... , Westbrook...

This early novel, written in collaboration with a friend, is a fascinating curiosity which suggests that Wodehouse might have...

Clarence Chugwater is not a Boy Scout for nothing. It is summer 1909 and everyone is too interested in the Test Match to notice...

This volume reprints two of Wodehouse's earliest story sequences, each linked by a central character, a technique he used many...

Would-be painter, George Finch, with lots of money and no talent, falls for lovely Molly Waddington who falls for him....

Monty Bodkin has returned to London from Hollywood, leaving Sandy Miller, his secretary there, heartbroken, because Monty loves...

Everyone in Company for Henry wants to escape from something. Hard-up Henry Paradene would like to unload his hideous country...

It is the general view at Eckleton that there never was such a house of slackers as Kay's. The fags run riot, the senior dayroom...

Following the death of Carmen Flores, the lubricious Mexican star, her Hollywood house is bought by wealthy Adela Cork, whose...

In this charming story of the Jackson cricketing dynasty at boarding school, Wodehouse evokes the peaceful, prosperous world of...

The Adventures of Sally is a transatlantic comedy set in worlds Wodehouse knew well: American theatres, English country houses,...

When O’Hara and Moriarty, two boys at Wrykyn School, tar and feather the statue of a pompous local MP, O’Hara mislays at the...

This charming novel is one of Wodehouse’s best late works. The vintage plot concerns a Gainsborough miniature, a mouldering...

This substantial collection of early stories displays a variety of tone, style and setting which may surprise readers familiar...

When Lord Emsworth's delectable solitude at Blandings Castle is shattered by the arrival from America of his bossy sister,...

With the Duke of Dunstable trying to steal his pig to sell to Lord Tilbury, mischievous Church Lads camping in his park, his...

Will playboy Biffy avoid trouble until his thirtieth birthday in a few days’ time and inherit a vast fortune from his teetotal...

Wodehouse revisits favourite places and characters in this gentle late comedy of crossed wires, pining lovers and overbearing...

A collection of ten stories in which many old friends reappear in deliciously absurd situations. Two lovers are united by their...

When Bill West of New York falls in love with the statuesque Alice Coker, his promise to look after her dissipated brother Judson...

When Chimp Twist, the dodgy proprietor of Healthward Ho health farm in Worcestershire, joins forces with partners in crime Dolly...

In nine of Wodehouse’s ripest stories from the 1920s, the characters are united by their worship of golf. From Rodney Spelvin,...

Despite marriage to a millionaire’s daughter and success as the vice-president of Donaldson’s Inc., manufacturers of the...

Do Butlers Burgle Banks? features the hitherto fortunate owner of Bond’s Bank, who finds himself in a spot of trouble so serious...

The nearest Wodehouse ever came to a serious story, The Coming of Bill is a fascinating blend of social comment and light comedy....