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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sebastian Faulks skilfully avoids egg on face in his entertaining P.G. Wodehouse sequel Jeeves and the Wedding Bells By Sebastian Faulks, Hutchinson, 272 pages, £16.99 This is madness, obviously. If, ...
One of the most astonishing miracles of modern literature is that the novels and stories of P.G. Wodehouse are still, 111 years after the publication of his first book, so incredibly funny. Not in a ...
Jeeves and Wooster trade places in Sebastian Faulks’ Jeeves And The Wedding Bells. Does the book have that sublime style which makes a Wodehouse Wodehouse? The Book: Jeeves And The Wedding Bells by ...
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 ...
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 ...
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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 ...