Ben Schott follows in the patent-leather footsteps of the great humourist, P.G. Wodehouse and his empire of comic writing.
Ben Schott is the author of Schott's Original Miscellany and its four sequels, which have been translated into twenty-one languages; six volumes of the yearbook Schott's Almanac; and Schottenfreude. He divides his time between London and New York.
Peerless in its wit, elegance and silliness. It is the most
successful homage to PG Wodehouse's Wooster and Jeeves stories to
date. The footnotes are a joy of misplaced erudition. More of the
same, please.
*Evening Standard, BOOKS OF THE YEAR*
Schott rises to the occasion with a rebooting of one of
literature’s great double acts that captures His Master’s voice
and, above all, the famous Wodehouse rhythm... A brilliant conceit:
a network of spies in livery, silently watching the movers and
shakers.
*The Times*
His sensitivity to the tics and cadences of his characters’ speech
and ways of being is uncannily acute, and full of the same
freshness and resonance of perception as Wodehouse’s own style. . .
it vibrates with the spirit and rhythms of [Wodehouse’s] heart
*Sunday Times*
An amusing and well-written homage to the master . . . Schott
excels with a series of similes and metaphors every bit as striking
as those Wodehouse came up with. A delight to read.
*Observer*
A most thrilling return of Wodehouse's Jeeves and Wooster.
*Sunday Times*
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