Book description
This is the first Blandings novel, In whuch P. G. Wodehouse
intorduces us to the delightfully dotty Lord Emsworth, his bone-headed
younger son, the Hon. Freddie Threepwood, his log-suffering secretary,
the Efficient Baxter, and Beach the Blandings butler.
As Wodehouse wrote, 'without at least one imposter on the premises,
Blandings Castle is never itself'. In Something Fresh there are two,
each with an eye on a valuable Egytian amulet which Lord Emsworth has
acquired without quite realizing how it came into his pocket. But of
course things get a lot more complicated than this...
The author of almost a hundred books and the creator of Jeeves,
Blandings Castle, Psmith, Ukridge, Uncle Fred and Mr Mulliner, P. G.
Wodehouse was born in 1881 and educated at Dulwich College. After two
years with the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank he became a full-time writer,
contributing to a variety of periodicals. As well as his novels and
short stories, he wrote lyrics for musical comedies, and at one stage
had five shows running simultaneously on Broadway. At the age of 93, in
the New Year's Honours List of 1975, he received a long-overdue
Knighthood, only to die on St Valentine's Day some 45 days later.
