The greatest writer of English prose alive

Confirms his standing as an intellectual with the rigour of the late Edmund Wilson

His ability to generate sentences of consistently high quality remains unimpaired

Hawes scatters pellets of satirical wit on the twitchy paranoia of the ageing liberal

Gripping and full of interest...it confirms Némirovsky's brilliance as a storyteller with a deep understanding of the hidden flaws and cruelties in the human heart

You'll find plenty to enjoy in Parks's arguments, always peppered with curt humour

Scary, funny and loaded with the kind of unforgettable characters that make all writers want to try harder

Beautifully crafted...a compelling debut of youthful daring. His quietly poetic prose is charming, and there's real warmth and depth here in his explorations of friendship and guilt

Part nostalgic reverie, part taut little thriller, it makes for a promising debut

Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny

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

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

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

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour

Sublime comic genius

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour