A Jeeves and Wooster novel The beefy ??Stilton?? Cheesewright has drawn Bertie Wooster as red-hot favourite in the Drones club annual darts tournament ?? which is lucky for Bertie because otherwise Stilton would have beaten him to a pulp and buttered the lawn with him. Stilton does not like men who he thinks are trifling […]
A Jeeves and Wooster novel At Deverill Hall, an idyllic Tudor manor in the picture-perfect village of Kings Deverill, impostors are in the air. The prime example is man-about-town Bertie Wooster, doing a good turn to Gussie Fink-Nottle by impersonating him while he enjoys fourteen days away from society after being caught taking an unscheduled […]
Written in 1960, Jeeves In The Offing finds PG Wodehouses best-loved characters on as fine form as ever. With Jeeves on holiday, Bertie Wooster accepts an invitation to Brinkley Court, where he hopes to pass a few pleasant days. However, there is little time to relax when the visit turns out to involve Berties ex-headmaster, […]
An Uncle Fred novel Frederick, Earl of Ickenham, remains young at heart. So it is for him the act of a moment to lean out of the Drones Club window with a catapult and ping the silk top-hat off his grumpy in-law, the distinguished barrister Sir Raymond Bastable. Unfortunately things don??t end there. The sprightly […]
A Jeeves and Wooster collectionnnA classic collection of stories featuring some of the funniest episodes in the life of Bertie Wooster, gentleman, and Jeeves, his gentleman??s gentleman ?? in which Berties 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 […]
The life of Jimmy Crocker, (a.k.a. Piccadilly Jim) has been little more than broken promises and drunken brawls. However, Jim has fallen in love and taken to reforming himself. Unfortunately, to win the heart of his intended, Jim must pretend to be someone else.
Published to mark the 25th anniversary of PG Wodehouses death, this is the first major new selection of his work to be published for a generation. This anthology of stories, novel-extracts, working drafts, articles, letters and poems gives a fresh angle on the twentieth centurys greatest humourist. In his introduction, Stephen Fry writes: “What a […]
Very Good, Jeeves! is a collection of short stories starring Bertie Wooster in eleven alarming predicaments from which he has to be rescued by his peerless gentlemans gentleman. Whether Bertie is tangled with a red-headed ball of fire such as Roberta Wickham, dealing with an irate headmistress, placating a cabinet minister, puncturing the wrong hot […]
On the 25th anniversary of Wodehouses death, booksellers and readers will be cheered to find the finest editions available of his classic novels–the first in a series of his best known works–by one of the greatest English comic writers of our time. Fans devoted to the master of comic fiction P. G. Wodehouse are legion. […]
Fans of P. G. Wodehouses comic genius are legion, and their devotion to his masterful command of hilarity borders on obsession. Overlook happily feeds the obsession with four more antic selections from the master. Blandings Castle is a collection of tales concerning Lord Emsworth and the Threepwood clan, while Jeeves in the Offing finds Bertie […]
A debonair young Englishman, Psmith (??the p is silent, as in phthisis, psychic, and ptarmigan?) has quit the fish business, ??even though there is money in fish,? and decided to support himself by doing anything that he is hired to do by anyone. Wandering in and out of romantic, suspenseful, and invariably hilarious situations, Psmith […]
Overlook is proud to present four more antic selections from comic genius, P.G. Wodehouse. A Damsel in Distress is an early novel about the aristocratic Marshmoreton family-a precursor to the Blandings series. Leave It to Psmith is a comedy adventure involving crime and gunplay, and Mulliner Nights is a series of stories about the inimitable […]