George MacDonald Fraser's hilarious stories of the most disastrous soldier in the British Army - collected together for the first time in one volume.
The legendary novella The Swoop, a comic masterpiece describing a starcrossed invasion of England, is combined with other humorous Wodehouse tales that have been unavailable for many years
'The ultimate in comfort reading' Marian Keyes 'A grown-up book - but not that grown-up' Katy Guest _____________________________________ 'I expect I shall feel better after tea.
Penguin first published Wodehouse in 1936, a year after Penguin was founded, and this volume offers three of the comic master's most-loved stories: 'Jeeves and the Impending Doom'; Jeeves and the Song of Songs; The Clicking of Cuthbert.
With characters and situations that are pure Sykes, this volume is a bundle of laughs. 'Funny. Read it.' - Spike Milligan on "UFOs Are Coming Wednesday." '...belly laughs that lurk in ambush behind every dune.
There are more shades to John B. Keane's humour than there are colours in the rainbow. Compassion, shrewdness and a glorious sense of fun and roguery are evident in this collection, which brings together all John B's short stories.
Originally published: London: Methuen, 1917.
THE COMPLETE PRATT compiles the first three volumes of the misadventures of Henry Pratt, beginning with a brilliantly funny evocation of a Yorkshire boyhood in SECOND FROM LAST IN THE SACK RACE; Henry's first job is as a cub reporter on the ...