- Published: 15 June 2011
- ISBN: 9780099551362
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $24.99
Wodehouse At The Wicket
A Cricketing Anthology
- Published: 15 June 2011
- ISBN: 9780099551362
- Imprint: Arrow
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 224
- RRP: $24.99
Sublime comic genius
Ben Elton
P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
Sebastian Faulks
The funniest writer ever to put words to paper
Hugh Laurie
Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny
Arabella Weir
Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!
Lindsey Davis
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
P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit
Christopher Hitchens
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
Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists
Susan Hill
It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him
John Humphrys
Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already
Lynne Truss
The greatest comic writer ever
Douglas Adams
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
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
The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon
Kathy Lette
My only problem with Wodehouse is deciding which of his enchanting books to take to my desert island
Ruth Dudley Edwards
P.G. Wodehouse should be prescribed to treat depression. Cheaper, more effective than valium and far, far more addictive
Olivia Williams
Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work
Jane Moore
I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language
Simon Brett
Wodehouse was quite simply the Bee's Knees. And then some
Joseph Connolly
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
A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting
Alan Ayckbourn
You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour
Stephen Fry