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Something Fresh

Jul 18, 2025 1:36 AM

Author:P.G. Wodehouse

Something Fresh

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

'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 so much wit and affection' Julian Fellowes

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'Without at least one impostor on the premises, Blandings Castle is never itself'

Welcome to the world of the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed younger son and his long-suffering secretary.

Having returned home with a valuable Egyptian amulet, Lord Emsworth finds his home contains not one but two imposters intent on taking it off his hands. But with no real sense of how the amulet came to be in his pocket in the first place, things get a lot more complicated very quickly...

Reviews

A comic masterpiece

—— BBC

Something Fresh has all the trademarks of a Wodehouse classic

—— The Times

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

—— Olivia Williams

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 so much wit and affection

—— Julian Fellowes

I've longed to visit the beautifully tended gardens of Blandings Castle with P. G. Wodehouse.

—— The Guardian , Books to read to cheer us up

A ghostly love story and a lovely ghost story

—— Tatler

The novel's representation of London rings completely true... The universe of Her Fearful Symmetry is solid and familiar...

—— John O'Connell , The Times

It's been worth the wait... Niffenegger's books are fabulously left field, striking an unlikely balance between romance and fantasy. A brilliantly beautiful book

—— Glamour

Chillingly good

—— Eithne Farry , Marie Claire

A one-off pleasure

—— Fanny Blake , Woman & Home

For me, it is that unique and dreamlike book ... that stands as her masterpiece

—— Jonathan Lethem

We Have Always Lived in the Castle is Jackson's masterpiece ... Stunning

—— Elaine Showalter

Manages the ironic miracle of convincing the reader that a house inhabited by a lunatic, a poisoner, and a pyromaniac is a world more rich in sympathy, love and subtlety than the world outside

—— Time

A witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty

—— The New York Times

A marvellous elucidation of life ... a story full of craft and full of mystery

—— The New York Times Book Review

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

—— Lindsey Davis

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

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

—— Stephen Fry

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