Wodehouse Prize goes to Jacobson

Nearly 40 years after the last book by the comic novelist P.G. Wodehouse, the aristocratic Bertie Wooster and his faithful valet, Jeeves, are making a comeback. The British novelist Sebastian Faulks, author of Birdsong" and a best-selling James Bond ...

With permission of the Wodehouse estate, Sebastian Faulks who was also the author of the estate-approved James Bond novel 'Devil May Care' will come out with a new story of Bertie and Jeeves in November. The story of aristocrat Bertie Wooster and ...

This rare footage on Youtube features P.G. Wodehouse in reminiscent mode

"It is never difficult," P.G. Wodehouse once wrote, "to distinguish between a Scotsman with a grievance and a ray of sunshine." Well, it has to be said that while he is not Scottish, the British-born barrister Archibald Nugent Robertson is a bit the ...

P. G. Wodehouse's extraordinary involvement in German propaganda is revealed in a brand new BBC drama. English writer P G Wodehouse writing at his home in Paris. For many, P.G. Wodehouse is the quintessential English author who sent up the British ...

The book I love the most is ... The Golf Omnibus by P.G. Wodehouse. It's the funniest book I've ever read and a great pick-me-up whenever I feel down. I've read it a dozen times and always find another comic gem in his masterful use of English. The ...

Dragons, dwarves, battles, magic… If you haven't yet seen Game of Thrones - the fantasy drama serial on Sky Atlantic, based on the novels of George RR Martin - you probably imagine it to be another Lord of the Rings. But in fact its influences ...

PG Wodehouse's bon mot about the fascination of shooting as a sport being dependent on the end of the gun at which one finds oneself applies equally to 21st century state security. There's a certain reassurance in reading of terrorist plots foiled, ...

Michael Frayn and Howard Jacobson have been shortlisted for an award celebrating the year's funniest novels. The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction is given annually to the book considered to best capture the comic spirit of PG ...