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´The Funniest writer ever to put words on paper´ Hugh Laurie

´I mean, if you´re asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it´s absurd to tack a ´sir´ on to every sentence. The two things don´t go together.´The odds are stacked against Chuffy when he falls head over heels for American heiress Pauline Stoker. Who better to help him win her over but Jeeves, the perfect gentleman´s gentleman. But when Bertie, Pauline´s ex-fiancé finds himself caught up in the fray, much to his consternation, even Jeeves struggles to get Chuffy his fairy-tale ending.´The ultimate in comfort reading. 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

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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse (always known as ´Plum´) wrote about seventy novels and some three hundred short stories over seventy-three years. He is widely recognised as the greatest 20th-century writer of humour in the English language.

Perhaps best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also created the world of Blandings Castle, home to Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings. His stories include gems concerning the irrepressible and disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; the ever-so-slightly-unscrupulous Fifth Earl of Ickenham, better known as Uncle Fred; and those related by Mr Mulliner, the charming raconteur of The Angler´s Rest, and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club.

In 1936 he was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for ´having made an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world´. He was made a Doctor of Letters by Oxford University in 1939 and in 1975, aged ninety-three, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. He died shortly afterwards, on St Valentine´s Day.

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