Summer Lightning : (Blandings Castle) by P.G. Wodehouse

Summer Lightning : (Blandings Castle) by P.G. Wodehouse'Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny' Adele Parks'Line for line, no other author brings me as much pleasure' Joe Dunthorne 'I like that young man. He is sound on pigs. He has his head screwed on the right way.'The Empress of Blandings, prize winning pig and all consuming passion of Clarence, Ninth Earl of Emsworth, has disappeared. Blandings Castle is in uproar and there are suspects a plenty from the scandalous memoirist Galahad

How will they ever get home

Plokhy traces the arc of each crisis

Where possible

This is Freud's groundbreaking study of a wealthy young Russian man

crude and mischievous

eating and drinking

Valldemossa

and examines the influences on Burgess's unique

It was a day that really ought to be filled with adventure

with the hues of morning on his wings - that it was Love to whom she was sobbing her farewell as his image was banished by the blameless rigour of irresistible day'George Eliot's most ambitious novel is a masterly evocation of diverse lives and changing fortunes in a provincial community

but exploring inland reveals a treasure trove of natural wonders

and his faithful colleague Dr Watson