'Cheaper and more effective than Valium.'1

Offers 'relief from anxiety, raginess or an afternoon-long tendency towards the sour.'2

'Read when you're well and when you're poorly; when you're travelling, and when you're not; when you're feeling clever, and when you're feeling utterly dim.'3

Whatever your mood, P. G. Wodehouse, widely acknowledged to be 'the best English comic novelist of the century'4, is guaranteed to lift your spirits.

Why? Because 'Mr Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He has made a world for us to live in and delight in.'5

How? 'You...

`The Funniest writer ever to put words on paper' Hugh Laurie`I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence.

`To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language' Ben Schott`There are moments, Jeeves, when one asks oneself, "Do trousers matter?"'`The mood will pass, sir.'Aunt Dahlia has tasked Bertie with purloining an antique cow creamer from Totleigh Towers.

I'm engaged to Miss Bassett.'Bertie is feeling most put out when he finds that his friend Gussie is seeking relationship advice from Jeeves. In a stroke of genius, Bertie realises he can kill two birds with one stone, palming off his prize-giving duties to Gussie by assuring him that the object of his affections will be there.

Despite having sworn never to set foot in there again, Bertie, true to form, answers the call of friendship.But even the best laid plans can go awry and, as usual, the only one who can set this frightful adventure straight is Jeeves. 'A comic master' David Walliams