PG Wodehouse
Why update PG Wodehouse?
Cynically timed for Christmas, celebrity authors have reimagined the classic characters
A Wodehousian pick-me-up
Noel Coward and Friends: A Marvellous Party (Signum Classics)
Coups and coronets
The return of the radical and the ridiculous
The enduring appeal of Jeeves and Wooster
Ben Schott’s new novel is hugely welcome, but thankfully it will never threaten to obscure the genius of the canon
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