A powerful story of tragedy and triumph and the forbidden love affair between a wealthy young man who is heir to his fathers cotton plantation in Alexandria and a beautiful young servant girl.
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 […]
Lucy Meeson-Smith works at a big bookmakers and always manages to back the back winners. Her employers become suspicious and take her to court for fraud. At her trial it is revealed that her father, a vicar, studies form avidly and is a brilliant tipster (though he himself is not a betting man). The judge […]
Whether for the loo or bedside entertainment or as a work of reference or self-improvement The Funniest Thing You Never Said is the biggest and best humorous quotation book there is – a complete one-stop shop of witty one liners. Quotations are ordered not by A-Z, but by thematic categories: love; business; religion; celebrity, you […]
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 […]
Roger Thurs by, aged twenty-four, is called to the bar. He is young, inexperienced and his love life is complicated. He blunders his way through a succession of comic adventures including his calamitous debut at the bar. His career takes an upward turn when he is chosen to defend the caddish Alfred Greenat the Old […]
A wonderful Christmas gift collection of short Wodehouse extracts, combining the wit and wisdom of the Master. The Wit and Wisdom of P.G. Wodehouse ?? all compacted into 128 pithy pages! Tony Ring, the president of the Wodehouse Association and author of the 600,000-word Millennium Wodehouse Concordance, has drawn on his extensive knowledge and even […]