Holly Martins arrives in post war Vienna to discover that his old friend Harry Lime has just died in a car accident. On hearing from Major Calloway of his criminal activities and racketeering, Martins vows to clear his friend's reputation and uncover the truth to discover what really happened to Harry Lime.

Jimmy Crocker, aka Piccadilly Jim, is a lively young American ex-newspaper man who meets Ann Chester, the girl of his dreams, in London. As they set sail together for New York, Jim struggles with a secret - he once wrote a bad review of her first book of poetry, and Ann has no idea, yet.

One of Rudyard Kipling's more farcical stories, this look at the strange administration of the British Raj introduces us to the eccentric inventor Mellish, and the rich and important Mellishe, both of whom desire an audience with the Viceroy of the Indian Empire. By a strange quirk of fate, the Viceroy's invitation gets sent to the inventor instead...

The first volume of Wodehouse's brilliant complete and unabridged short stories. Originally a semi-novel, this version contains self-contained stories which are nonetheless linked, often by Bingo Little, an endearingly hopeless chap and a serial romancer: 1. Jeeves Exerts the Old Cerebellum 2. No Wedding Bells For Bingo 3. Aunt Agatha Speaks Her Mi...

A much-loved classic for children and adults alike, this collection of poems is a truly unforgettable book of moral instruction. Take heed from the lessons learnt by Matilda, who told lies and was burned to death, Jim, who ran away from his nurse and was eaten by a lion, and Rebecca, who slammed doors for fun and perished miserably...

In Pigs Have Wings, affably potty Lord Emsworth is embroiled in a fierce pig-rearing battle with his obese neighbour, Sir Gregory Parsloe-Parsloe. Tossed in for good measure: romantic entanglements, some dubious detective work and a fearful dieting product called 'Slimmo'. Blandings is also never complete without the resourcefulness of canny Gally...

William George Bunter - Billy to his friends (and enemies) - is up to his usual pranks, falling asleep in class, stealing jam and cake from other boys' lockers, chalking rude things on the blackboard and failing to turn up for cricket. When finally threatened with expulsion, will he be redeemed by his final adventure?

No more chocolate! The government has closed down all the burger bars and chip shops in the country and is striving to build a happier and healthier population. But have they gone too far? Huntly and his friend Smudge think so, and together with local shopkeeper Mrs Bubby, the boys devise a cunning plan to restore freedom, justice and chocolate for...

An elegantly observed journal of a year in the life of the musical play 'By Jeeves', written and directed by two theatre geniuses, Alan Ayckbourn and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Beginning in January 2001, the production travels from Pittsburgh to Toronto - but will it make it to Broadway?

Donald Cameron, a young Scotsman, is commissioned to write a book on the outsider's view of the English. During his investigation into the foibles of English social life he encounters civil servants, newspaper editors, minor poets and a glamorous film star in such classically English situations as the country house weekend and one of the most famou...

Galahad Threepwood is causing scandal again... this time by deciding to not publish his potentially humiliating high-society memoirs. His decision causes rifts in the ranks at castle Blandings and all involved split into three camps: those who want the book suppressed, those who want it published, and those, who for some reason or another, have bee...

It's the beginning of the summer holidays and William and the Outlaws see an endless expanse of gloriously carefree days stretching ahead but how to fill them? The six classic adventures contained in this unabridged reading are: William and the Holiday Centre - William's Treasure Trove - William and the Cottage - William Tackles the Job - William a...

The sinister affair of the eighteenth century cow-creamer and the small, brown, leather-covered notebook tests the Wooster soul as it has never been tested before. Friends and relations, in urgent need, queue up to beg for assistance in a variety of troublesome situations, and ruthless enemies stop at nothing in their determination to bring Bertie...

This is a life told back to front. This is a man who has lied all his life. Roy is a conman living in a small English town, about to pull off his final con. He is going to meet and woo a beautiful woman and slip away with her life savings. But who is the man behind the con and what has he had to do to survive this life of lies? And why is this beau...

Wooster bumps into Bingo and his uncle Old Bittlesham in St James' Street. Old Bittlesham has received a threatening letter in an uneducated hand. Bingo and his uncle think that the culprit is a man with a beard. So Bingo with the help of œ50 offers to sort the matter out. Instead he puts the œ50 on Ocean Breeze a horse owned by his Unc...

Rockmetteler (Rocky) Todd, one of the laziest people in America, visits Wooster and Jeeves in New York for their advice. Rocky's aunt has written him a letter informing him that she will give him a large monthly allowance on the condition that he visits all the clubs and retaurants and lives life to the full as she would have done had she been much...

A surprisingly shocking short story which is darkly comical, mainly concerning female submission and the necessary loss of identity to survive in an unfair male-dominated world. Humphrey's mother meets an intriguing stranger at a dance and agrees to go for a walk with him. The events that follow shape the rest of her life, that of her husband and o...

Wooster receives a letter out of the blue from his Aunt Agatha inviting him and Jeeves to join her in Rouville-sur-Mer, France. It turns out that Aunt Agatha has decided it is time that Wooster gets married and has some children. She has met an eminently respectable girl she wants to introduce him to, as she considers her absolutely right for the j...

The first fully recognizable Jeeves and Bertie story. Bertie's cousin arrives in New York lured by the bright lights of Broadway, forcing his dreaded Aunt Agatha to make an unscheduled visit to America. A struggling artist needs help in a romantic intrigue. A wonderful Wodehouse story full of laughs, gaffes and unlikely though touching camaraderie.

A short story first published in the United States in The Saturday Evening Post on November 28, 1916, and in the United Kingdom in the April 1923 edition of Strand Magazine. Its first book publication. From 'Carry on, Jeeves'. Uncle Willoughby guest-stars in this story of engagement, surprise and of course, a whole lot of raucous comedy.

Hapless and often hopeless romantic Bingo Little has fallen for yet another young lady in this Jeeves and Wooster story of terrible cravats, far-from-fine dining and love's perhaps-not-so-young dream. Bertie is rather confounded by Bingo's love for a girl below his rightful station, so long-suffering Jeeves is roped in to talk to Bingo's uncle, who...