Launching the new look with four of his most-loved and biggest-selling novels.Part of a push to broaden the audience of Wodehouse, grow sales and create an enduring cultural legacy, with four Wodehouse Penguin paperbacks reissued at the same time as a hardback.Launching a marketing campaign to celebrate 120 years of P. G. Wodehouse publishing including fresh creative, digital advertising and promotional materials for bookshops as well as outreach to book bloggers.Planning a major publicity moment for the 120th anniversary, working with high-profile fans for coverage across the newspapers, BBC Radio 4 and literary festivals.P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) is widely regarded as the greatest comic writer of the 20th century. Wodehouse wrote more than 70 novels and 200 short stories, creating numerous much-loved characters - the inimitable Jeeves and Wooster, Lord Emsworth and his beloved Empress of Blandings, Mr Mulliner, Ukridge, and Psmith. His humorous articles were published in more than 80 magazines, including
Punch, over six decades. He was also a highly successful music lyricist, once with over five musicals running on Broadway simultaneously. P.G. Wodehouse was awarded the Mark Twain Prize for 'an outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world'.The finest and funniest writer the past century ever knewPlenty to savour
Celebrating 120 years of P. G. Wodehouse with his very first novel.
'What a mad thing to go and do. Jolly sporting, though.'
Suspicion abounds at St Austin's School when two silver trophies, or 'pots', are stolen from the cricket pavilion. Jim Thomson, a talented sportsman who due to an unfortunate series of coincidences could be thought to be the burglar, resolves to clear his name. Featuring a man from Scotland Yard, chases through the woods and an exasperated headmaster, Wodehouse's first novel is a paean to his beloved, idyllic late Victorian schooldays, punctuated by bouts of gentlemanly sport and comic escapades. All the hallmarks of what makes Wodehouse the greatest comic writer of all are in evidence here, in a spiffing read for Wodehouse aficionados and the uninitiated alike.
