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In this charming story of the Jackson cricketing dynasty at boarding school, Wodehouse evokes the peaceful, prosperous world of...
This is the tale of Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge, one of Wodehouse’s favourite protagonists, and his fraught attempt to...
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,...
When someone breaks into the cricket pavilion and steals two silver cups, the whole school is agog. Could it possibly be an...
Want to know how to lose a golf tournament, a good job or a Fat Uncles sweepstake? Destroy the wrong Old Master painting in the...
Set in the Elysian suburb of Valley Fields where the sixth Viscount Uffenham is lodging with his former butler while his...
When Sam Marlowe falls in love with his cousin's sparky ex-fiancee he finds himself up against stiff opposition from her...
T. Paterson Frisby, the dyspeptic American financier, loves every cent of his twenty million dollars. Lady Vera Mace loves T....
Sent to England by his rich American uncle to work for the Mammoth Publishing Corporation, Sam Shotter takes up residence in...
When Chimp Twist, the dodgy proprietor of Healthward Ho health farm in Worcestershire, joins forces with partners in crime Dolly...
Despite marriage to a millionaire’s daughter and success as the vice-president of Donaldson’s Inc., manufacturers of the...
The Little Nugget is one of the novels in which Wodehouse found his feet, a comic thriller set in an English prep school for the...
More stories about the incredible Mulliner clan, following on from Meet Mr Mulliner. This volume includes such classic Wodehouse...
The Earl of Marshmoreton's lively daughter – the damsel of the title – thinks she is in love with one Geoffrey Raymond, but a...
In this comic novel - dedicated to Douglas Fairbanks, who starred in the stage version - Jimmy Pitt, man-about-town and former...
A Hollywood star and an English aristocrat exchange souls while under ether at the dentist and the result is mayhem. Though his...
If Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge had a fiver for every dodgy scheme he has ever floated, he would be a rich man indeed. In...
A new translation of Nobel Prize-winning author Halldor Laxness's masterpiece
Late one snowy midwinter night, in a remote...
The sublime city of Venice has long offered inspiration to the world's storytellers. This anthology gathers an array of dazzling...
In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and...
Love Stories brings together a captivating assortment of short stories inspired by romantic entanglement in its many forms: first...
The Adventures of Sally is a transatlantic comedy set in worlds Wodehouse knew well: American theatres, English country houses,...
Freddie Widgeon wants the money to buy shares in a coffee plantation in Kenya so that he can marry Sally Foster. Soapy and Dolly...
This charming novel is one of Wodehouse’s best late works. The vintage plot concerns a Gainsborough miniature, a mouldering...
Do Butlers Burgle Banks? features the hitherto fortunate owner of Bond’s Bank, who finds himself in a spot of trouble so serious...
The Honourable Galahad Threepwood has decided to write his memoirs and England's aristocrats are all diving for cover, not least...
It is pig stealing time in Shropshire. After winning the Fat Pig competition for two years in a row with Empress of Blandings,...
Sidney Trefusis is a proselytizing socialist. Armed with irony and paradox, he is determined to overthrow a society riddled with...
At the turn of the twentieth century, two children play on an English beach. Eustace, a gentle, dreamy, boy with a weak heart,...
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