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What the critics say

Each time you read another Blandings story, the sublime nature of that world is such as to make you gasp
- Stephen Fry

It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him
- John Humphrys

A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting
- Alan Ayckbourn

Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists
- Susan Hill

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

Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already
- Lynne Truss

The incomparable and timeless genius - perfect for readers of all ages, shapes and sizes!
- Kate Mosse

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

P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit
- Christopher Hitchens

To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language
- Ben Schott

Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny
- Adele Parks

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

Wodehouse was quite simply the Bee's Knees. And then some
- Joseph Connolly

I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language
- Simon Brett

Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work
- Jane Moore

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

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!
- Lindsey Davis

P.G. Wodehouse should be prescribed to treat depression. Cheaper, more effective than valium and far, far more addictive
- Olivia Williams

My only problem with Wodehouse is deciding which of his enchanting books to take to my desert island
- Ruth Dudley Edwards

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon
- Kathy Lette

Witty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny
- Arabella Weir

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper
- Hugh Laurie

The greatest comic writer ever
- Douglas Adams

P.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
- Sebastian Faulks

Sublime comic genius
- Ben Elton