Ring for Jeeves

A Jeeves novelCaptain Biggar big-game hunter and all round tough guy should make short work of the two bookies who have absconded with his winnings after a freak double made him a fortune.|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'.|A Jeeves novelCaptain Biggar big-game hunter and all round tough guy should make short work of the two bookies who have absconded with his winnings after a freak double made him a fortune. But on this occasion Honest Patch Perkins and his clerk are not as they seem. In fact they're not bookies at all but the impoverished Bill Belfry Ninth Earl of Rowcester and his temporary butler Jeeves.Bertie Wooster has gone away to a special school teaching the aristocracy to fend for itself 'in case the social revolution sets in with even greater severity'. But Jeeves will prove just as resourceful without his young master and brilliant brainwork may yet square the impossible circle for all concerned.|It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer but I'll risk it with him|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|Wodehouse always lifts your spirits no matter how high they happen to be already|The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages shapes and sizes!|Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists