Wodehouse for the Weekend: BARMY IN WONDERLAND

New in the beloved Collector's Wodehouse series is Barmy in Wonderland. This classic plot of 1920s musical comedy, so familiar to Wodehouse from his own stage works, becomes the basis for a brilliant satire on theatrical life. The book concerns the character Cyril "Barmy" Fotheringay-Phipps, who had previously appeared in Wodehouse's Drones Club and Jeeves stories, and his adventures in the theatrical world. Featuring monstrous producers, vain film stars, impossible critics, temperamental actresses and a whole chorus of sharply drawn minor parts, this 1952 novel is Wodehouse at the top of his form.

Happy Birthday, P.G. WODEHOUSE!

Today is the birthday of the great P.G. Wodehouse! And what better way to celebrate than picking up a new volume in Overlook's beloved Collector's Wodehouse series. The latest releases are Barmy in Wonderland and The Man with Two Left Feet. And coming in April 2010 are The Indiscretions of Archie and Frozen Assets. Happy Birthday, Plum!

For the true, die-hard Wodehouse fans, today might be a good day to pick up Plum Sauce: A P.G. Wodehouse Companion, byRichard Usborne. In this marvelously entertaining guide, Usborne brings order to the vast an tangled fictional world that Wodehouse stitched together in a writing career that stretched over 70 years and nearly 100 books.