Reviewed by Peter Cannon. In an author’s note included with the galley of this homage to P.G. Wodehouse (1881–1975), Sebastian Faulks asserts that he’s “no expert,” that he’s “just a fan,” with a ...
It was in 1915 that Bertie Wooster, Wodehouse's favourite man about town, first made a cameo appearance in the Saturday Evening Post. Nearly a century on, Faulks's joyful tribute finds him ...
Best-selling writer Sebastian Faulks is to breathe new life into much-loved characters Jeeves and Wooster after being approached by the estate of PG Wodehouse. Faulks, whose acclaimed works include ...
I'VE never previously read anything by Sebastian Faulks. In fact when his best-seller Birdsong first came out the very fact that someone seemed to possess a copy wherever I looked provoked an ...
Bertie Wooster, after a 6am alarm that “sounded like a dozen iron dustbins being chucked down a flight of stone steps”, brings a cup of tea to Jeeves, sitting in bed wearing a burgundy dressing gown ...
Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Jeeves and the Wedding Bells: A Homage to P.G. Wodehouse, by Sebastian Faulks, Hutchinson, RRP£16.99 / St Martin’s ...
Sebastian Faulks has proved himself to be a more than capable literary ventriloquist. Pistache (2006) saw him taking on and sending up famous voices in fiction. Devil May Care, his 2008 James Bond ...
Sebastian Faulks’ resurrection of Wodehouse’s two most spectacularly beloved characters, the inimitable gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, and his blithering, buffoonish employer, Bertie Wooster, had made ...
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