His final masterpiece. Enthralling and indispensible for understanding modern history

Right up there among my favourite books ... I read it again and again

More relevant to today than almost any other book that you can think of

One of the most shocking novels of the twentieth century

The book of the twentieth century

'Wistful and poignant. A masterpiece in Chekhovian understatement'

'Exciting, evocative and beautifully written. A treasure in itself'

Armistead Maupin is in fine form in the delightful, tender and funny Michael Tolliver Lives. The beloved characters from the Tales of the City books are back, and it feels as if they've never been away

Anyone who enjoyed [Maupin's] earlier books will welcome this opportunity for a return trip to its setting... Has the warmth of a reunion long overdue

Maupin remains a great storyteller, a magnificently unrepentant liberal, and a wise, witty observer of the differences which make us human

A beautifully told, mysterious story

A daring, poetic, provocative, cleansing novel

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

Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work

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

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

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

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

The funniest writer ever to put words to paper

The greatest comic writer ever

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

Sublime comic genius