8 JANUARY 2005, Page 16

Wodehouse

by Robert McCrum

P.G. Wodehouse is still one of the world’s best-loved writers. Nearly thirty years after his death, over fifty-five of his novels are still in print. His Jeeves titles sell over 10,000 copies per year.

In this new biography based on research throughout Britain, Europe and the USA, Robert McCrum delves deeply beneath the brilliant surface of Wodehouse’s extraordinary life: his youth in Edwardian Britain, his golden years in Jazz Age America and his internment in Nazi Germany, the experience that haunted him to his death in 1975. McCrum creates a moving and extremely funny portrait of an English writer of genius.