One of the great English novels of recent years, a work of sublime literary realism, and a blackly comic meditation on the sins and sorrows of modernity

Wonderfully dark

A terrific debut, written in a present tense which flashes every so often into the past - a trick which Szalay pulls off with confidence... a tense and compelling read

A funny, painful, graphic demonstration that our job is a crucial part of our identity.... It's compulsively readable

Szalay's satire is sharp, though his depictions of rush-hour raise the blood pressure to levels that are not advisable

This is David Szalay's first novel, and it's very, very good...it has a whiff of The Office...Superb

It's very, very good

Cunning, relentlessly jokey and sad

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

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

The greatest comic writer ever

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 funniest writer ever to put words to paper

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

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

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

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

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

Sublime comic genius

Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in