Pelham Grenville Wodehouse

Presents a collection of short stories about Lord Emsworth and his Blandings estate.

Blandings Castle and Elsewhere

P.G. Wodehouse

‘I love his writing, it’s so clever and funny, so deft.' Alan Titchmarsh’s 6 Best Books choice (Daily Express) A Blandings collection The ivied walls of Blandings Castle have seldom glowed as sunnily as in these wonderful stories - but there are snakes in the rolling parkland ready to nip Clarence, the absent-minded Ninth Earl of Emsworth, when he least expects it. For a start the Empress of Blandings, in the running for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show, is off her food - and can only be coaxed back to the trough by a call in her own language. Then there is the feud with Head Gardener McAllister, aided by Clarence's sister, the terrifying Lady Constance, and the horrible prospect of the summer fête - twin problems solved by the arrival of a delightfully rebellious little girl from London. But first of all there is the vexed matter of the custody of the pumpkin. Skipping an ocean and a continent, Wodehouse also treats us to some unputdownable stories of excess from the monstrous Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Kate

Not as good as Jeeves & Wooster, but the narration was good and they did make me laugh out loud. The last two stories, without Lord Emsworth & co., did not hold my attention and I skipped them. They might be better on paper, but the narrator's American-accented voices were unpleasant to listen to.

Blandings Castle and Elsewhere

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