Re-introducing 9 titles by P.G. WODEHOUSE
THE INIMITABLE JEEVES
ISBN 9780099513681 / 253 pages Paperback
A Jeeves and Wooster story collection
A classic collection of linked stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman’s gentleman - in which Bertie’s terrifying Aunt Agatha stalks the pages, seeking whom she may devour, while Bertie’s friend Bingo Little falls in love with seven different girls in succession (he marries the last, the bestselling romantic novelist Rosie M. Banks). And Bertie, with Jeeves’s help, just evades the clutches of the terrifying Honoria Glossop… At its heart is one of Wodehouse’s most delicious stories, ‘The Great Sermon Handicap.’
CARRY ON, JEEVES
ISBN 0099656906 / 200 pages Paperback
It is only when Bertram Wooster is forced to sack Meadowes,his manservant,for petty pilfering that Jeeves shimmers into Bertie’s world.
In these ten classic stories the imperturbable Jeeves is most definitely in his element.Whether protecting Wooster in the case of Uncle Willoughby’s embarrassing manuscript or suggesting an all-too-successful solution to the problem of Corky and his unsuitable fiancee,Jeeves works his inimitable magic time and time again…And thanks to Jeeves’ good offices,even Aunt Agatha cannot prevent Bertie from coming out on top.
VERY GOOD, JEEVES!
ISBN 9780099513681 / 253 pages Paperback
An outstanding collection of Jeeves stories, every one a winner, in which Jeeves endeavours to give satisfaction:
By saving a grumpy cabinet minister from being marooned and attacked by a swan - in the process saving Bertie Wooster from his impending doom…
By rescuing Bingo Little and Tuppy Glossop from the soup (twice each)…
By arranging rather too many performances of the song ‘Sonny Boy’ to a not very appreciative audience…
THANK YOU JEEVES
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RIGHT HO, JEEVES
ISBN 9780099513742 / 253 pages Paperback
A Jeeves and Wooster novel
Gussie Fink-Nottle’s knowledge of the common newt is unparalleled. Drop him in a pond of newts and his behaviour will be exemplary, but introduce him to a girl and watch him turn pink, yammer, and suddenly stampede for great open spaces. Even with Madeline Bassett, who feels that the stars are God’s daisy chain, his tongue is tied in reef-knots. And his chum Tuppy Glossop isn’t getting on much better with Madeline’s delectable friend Angela.
With so many broken hearts lying about him, Bertie Wooster can’t sit idly by. The happiness of a pal - two pals, in fact - is at stake. But somehow Bertie’s best-laid plans land everyone in the soup, and so it’s just as well that Jeeves is ever at hand to apply his bulging brains to the problems of young love.
SOMETHING FRESH
ISBN 9780099513780 / 260 pages Paperback
A Blandings novel
This is the first Blandings novel, in which P.G. Wodehouse introduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his long-suffering secretary, the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler.
As Wodehouse wrote, ‘without at least one impostor on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself’. In Something Fresh there are two, each with an eye on a valuable scarab which Lord Emsworth has acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of course things get a lot more complicated than this…
LEAVE IT TO PSMITH
ISBN 9780099513797 / 328 pages Paperback
A Blandings novel
Lady Constance Keeble, sister of Lord Emsworth of Blandings Castle, has both an imperious manner and a valuable diamond necklace. The precarious peace of Blandings is shattered when her necklace becomes the object of dark plottings, for within the castle lurk some well-connected jewel thieves - among them the Honourable Freddie Threepwood, Lord Emsworth’s younger son, who wants the reward money to set up a bookmaking business. Psmith, the elegant socialist, is also after it for his newly married chum Mike. And on patrol with the impossible task of bringing management to Blandings is the Efficient Baxter, whose strivings for order lead to a memorable encounter with the castle flowerpots.
Will peace ever return to Blandings Castle…?
PICCADILLY JIM
ISBN 9780099513889 / 300 pages Paperback
It takes a lot of effort for Jimmy Crocker to become Piccadilly Jim - nights on the town roistering, headlines in the gossip columns, a string of broken hearts and breaches of promise. Eventually he becomes rather good at it and manages to go to pieces with his eyes open.
But no sooner has Jimmy cut a wild swathe through fashionable London than his terrifying Aunt Nesta decides he must mend his ways. He then falls in love with the girl he has hurt most of all, and after that things get complicated.
In a dizzying plot, impersonations pile on impersonations so that (for reasons that will become clear, we promise) Jimmy ends up having to pretend he’s himself. Does he deserve a happy ending? Read and find out.
UKRIDGE
ISBN 9780099513896/ 270 pages Paperback
Money makes the world go round for Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge - and when there isn’t enough of it, the world just has to spin a bit faster.
Ever on the lookout for a quick buck, a solid gold fortune, or at least a plausible little scrounge, the irrepressible Ukridge gives con men a bad name. Looking like an animated blob of mustard in his bright yellow raincoat, he invests time, passion and energy (but seldom actual cash) in a series of increasingly bizarre money-making schemes. Finance for a dog college? It’s yours. Shares in an accident syndicate? Easily arranged. Promoting a kind-hearted heavyweight boxer? A snip.
Poor Corky Corcoran, Ukridge’s old school chum and confidant, trails through these pages in the ebullient wake of Wodehouse’s most disreputable but endearing hero and hopes to escape with his shirt at least.