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Something Fresh

Nov 6, 2025 8:07 PM

Author:P.G. Wodehouse

Something Fresh

The first of the Blandings Castle novels, introducing Lord Emsworth, his family, his secretary – the Efficient Baxter – and the mandatory Wodehouse cast of butlers, aunts, younger sons, detectives, lovers and imposters. Take the 4.15 from Paddington Station to Shropshire and arrive in heaven.

Reviews

Bewitching writing

—— Sunday Correspondent

Bold and erotic, laced with sexual tension and music, a spellbinding story

—— New York Times Book Review

Morbid delights, sexually charged passages and wicked, wild tragedy

—— Publishers Weekly

An exuberant novel... the lost dreams of a battered, once beautiful city have a tangible presence

—— Financial Times

Fowles is an artist of great imaginative power

—— Sunday Times

These extraordinary diaries... should help bring about his richly deserved resuscitation

—— Spectator

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