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Summer Lightning
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409064619
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
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Summer Lightning

(Blandings Castle)

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EBook
1 Sept 2010
Paperback
1 Aug 2008
Hardback
15 Nov 2000
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‘You don’t analyse such sunlit perfection: you just bask in its warmth and splendour’ Stephen Fry

'I like that young man. He is sound on pigs. He has his head screwed on the right way.'

The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared.

Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty - from the scandalous memoirist Galahad Threepwood to the Efficient Baxter, and the chilling former secretary to Lord Emsworth. Even Beach the Butler seems deeply embroiled. And what of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Clarence's arch-rival and neighbour, whose own pig competes with the Empress for local glory?

With the castle full or imposters and deception around every corner, how will the Earl ever get to the bottom of the disappearance of the castle's most precious occupant?

'Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny' Adele Parks

'Line for line, no other author brings me as much pleasure' Joe Dunthorne
  • Published: 1 September 2010
  • ISBN: 9781409064619
  • Imprint: Cornerstone Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 336
Categories:

About the author

P.G. Wodehouse

P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as the greatest comic writer of the 20th century. Wodehouse wrote more than 70 novels and 200 short stories, creating numerous much-loved characters - the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster, Lord Emsworth and his beloved Empress of Blandings, Mr Mulliner, Ukridge, and Psmith. His humorous articles were published in more than 80 magazines, including Punch, over six decades. He was also a highly successful music lyricist, once with over five musicals running on Broadway simultaneously. P.G. Wodehouse was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for 'an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world'.
P.G

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Jeeves Again
A Life in Letters
According to Jeeves
Fine Weather, Jeeves
Nothing Serious
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Praise for Summer Lightning

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

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

Arabella Weir

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

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

Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius

Ben Elton