Author:P.G. Wodehouse
'Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny' Adele Parks
'Line for line, no other author brings me as much pleasure' Joe Dunthorne
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'I like that young man. He is sound on pigs. He has his head screwed on the right way.'
The Empress of Blandings, prize-winning pig and all-consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared.
Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a-plenty - from the scandalous memoirist Galahad Threepwood to the Efficient Baxter, and the chilling former secretary to Lord Emsworth. Even Beach the Butler seems deeply embroiled. And what of Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe, Clarence's arch-rival and neighbour, whose own pig competes with the Empress for local glory?
With the castle full or imposters and deception around every corner, how will the Earl ever get to the bottom of the disappearance of the castle's most precious occupant?
Anne Rice fans will no doubt be thrilled . . . It's not just the epic plot but Rice's voluptuary worldview that's the main attraction
—— Washington PostAn amazing writer ... If you haven't read We Have Always Lived in the Castle or The Haunting of Hill House or any of her short stories you have missed out on something marvellous
—— Neil GaimanThe world of Shirley Jackson is eerie and unforgettable ... She is a true master
—— A. M. HomesOne of the twentieth century's most luminous and strange American writers
—— Jonathan LethemHer books penetrate keenly to the terrible truths which sometimes hide behind comfortable fictions, to the treachery beneath cheery neighborhood faces and the plain manners of country folk
—— Donna TarttShe is the finest master...of the cryptic, haunted tale
—— The New York Times Book ReviewA novel which at one stroke puts her unquestionably among the great masters of the genre . . . as spine-chilling . . . as anything Edgar Allan Poe dreamed up.
—— Peter Green , Daily TelegraphThe Bell is not frightening, precisely, but it offers that uneasy sensation of being suspended, somehow, between what is familiar and what is strange… a kind of hot, dreamlike muddle… The Bell has, in the 60 years since its publication, lost none of its power to disrupt
—— Sarah Perry , Daily TelegraphA masterpiece of Gothic suspense
—— Joyce Carol OatesSo eerie, so disturbing, and not a wasted word, it has the kind of economy I wish I knew how to achieve
—— Jonathan CoeFor me, it is that unique and dreamlike book ... that stands as her masterpiece
—— Jonathan LethemWe Have Always Lived in the Castle is Jackson's masterpiece ... Stunning
—— Elaine ShowalterManages 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
—— TimeA witch's brew of eerie power and startling novelty
—— The New York TimesA marvellous elucidation of life ... a story full of craft and full of mystery
—— The New York Times Book ReviewCompulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!
—— Lindsey DavisThe Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon
—— Kathy LetteWitty and effortlessly fluid. His books are laugh-out-loud funny
—— Arabella WeirThe funniest writer ever to put words to paper
—— Hugh LaurieThe greatest comic writer ever
—— Douglas AdamsP.G. Wodehouse wrote the best English comic novels of the century
—— Sebastian FaulksSublime comic genius
—— Ben EltonYou don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour
—— Stephen Fry
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