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• Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
  ...I recommend any of the Jeeves series – such as [[Thank You, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse]]?
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• Bird Brain by Guy Kennaway
  ...of such poor quality so badly shot up they can't even be turned into cheap pâté. ...e then I reckon you should return to master: [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|P G Wodehouse]] still can't be beaten.
  6 KB (998 words) - 15:46, 22 March 2018
• The Wilt Inheritance by Tom Sharpe
  ...of farce, on the lighter side of the genre, try [[Thank You, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse]].
  3 KB (503 words) - 13:56, 1 September 2020
• The Turn of the Tide by Margaret Henderson Smith
  ...something goes wrong, creating situations which are the love child of P G Wodehouse and Frank Spencer of ''Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em''.
  3 KB (522 words) - 14:45, 19 March 2018
• The Voyage of the Dolphin by Kevin Smith
  ...l of the whole piece is Jerome K Jerome meets [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]] meets mischievous Kevin Smith. Mischievous? Oh yes! He's a great one f
  4 KB (735 words) - 16:46, 22 February 2018
• The Interview: Bookbag Talks To Chris Worthington
  ...vels, and occasionally the Jeeves novels by [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|P.G. Wodehouse]]. The book which has made the most impact on me though is a scientific wor
  5 KB (963 words) - 10:48, 2 September 2012
• Boxer, Beetle by Ned Beauman
  enjoy [[Thank You, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse]] though.
  3 KB (595 words) - 13:35, 10 April 2018
• Cashel Byron's Profession by George Bernard Shaw
  ...lighthearted, old fashioned comedy will enjoy [[Joy in the Morning by P G Wodehouse]]
  4 KB (601 words) - 14:44, 23 March 2018
• The Yips by Nicola Barker
  In the blurb Nicola Barker is likened to [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]. Although she's as adept at pacing humour as PG was, NB has greater bread
  5 KB (838 words) - 11:52, 1 March 2018
• J.M. Coetzee: A life in writing by J C Kannemeyer
  ...ad. Unless Coetzee turns out to be another [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|P.G. Wodehouse]] still writing and publishing new books into his nineties, this will almos
  6 KB (970 words) - 12:08, 9 April 2018
• Gilbert of Gilbert and Sullivan: His Life and Character by Andrew Crowther
  ...morist of the next generation, the youthful [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|P.G. Wodehouse]], noted after one encounter with the elder man in his later years that ''e
  6 KB (1,056 words) - 12:19, 26 February 2018
• Blotto, Twinks and the Ex-King's Daughter by Simon Brett
  ...fferent from any Blackadder word wrangling, and [[Thank You, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse|Jeeves and Wooster]], to make their quickly defined characters very enjoyab
  5 KB (788 words) - 10:26, 16 August 2020
• The Herring In The Library by L C Tyler
  ...oes The Bride by M C Beaton|Agatha Raisin]] and [[Thank You, Jeeves by P G Wodehouse|Bertie Wooster]]. Add a dash of [[Agatha Christie]], and you have a fair id
  5 KB (777 words) - 13:10, 1 September 2020
• Death Makes A Prophet by John Bude
  ...Agatha Christie|Christie-crime]] as re-worked by [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|Wodehouse]]. We know that there is going to be a murder – the title itself gives
  7 KB (1,108 words) - 10:06, 8 March 2018
• Man Booker Prize 2012
  ...[[:Category:David Mitchell|David Mitchell]], [[:Category:P G Wodehouse|P G Wodehouse]], [[:Category:Douglas Adams|Douglas Adams]], Raymond Chandler even [[:Cate
  10 KB (1,611 words) - 10:54, 1 February 2024
• One Morning Like A Bird by Andrew Miller
  ...entirely in keeping with the times (at least as we Western readers of P G Wodehouse and Agatha Christie have been conditioned to think of them).
  5 KB (893 words) - 15:05, 30 March 2018

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