A Damsel in Distress

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny

Arabella Weir

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century

Sebastian Faulks

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon

Kathy Lette

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

Hugh Laurie

The greatest comic writer ever

Douglas Adams

Sublime comic genius

Ben Elton

It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him

John Humphrys

For as long as I'm immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day

Marian Keyes

Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already

Lynne Truss

The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes!

Kate Mosse

Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists

Susan Hill

P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection

Julian Fellowes

A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting

Alan Ayckbourn

P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit

Christopher Hitchens

Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny

Adele Parks

To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language

Ben Schott

Wodehouse was quite simply the Bee's Knees. And then some

Joseph Connolly

Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work

Jane Moore

I've recorded all the Jeeves books, and I can tell you this: it's like singing Mozart. The perfection of the phrasing is a physical pleasure. I doubt if any writer in the English language has more perfect music

Simon Callow

I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language

Simon Brett

To pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment

John Julius Norwich

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!

Lindsey Davis

P.G. Wodehouse should be prescribed to treat depression. Cheaper, more effective than valium and far, far more addictive

Olivia Williams

My only problem with Wodehouse is deciding which of his enchanting books to take to my desert island

Ruth Dudley Edwards

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour

Stephen Fry