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Books in the British genre:

Frozen Assets (2010)

When Edmund Biffen Pike inherits his godfather’s millions, it’s on condition he is not arrested - something he finds it hard to avoid as he has a compulsion to sock every policeman he meets. Fortunately his sister Kay and Jerry Shoesmith ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Mary Poppins: The Complete Collection (2010)

This omnibus edition contains all six original Mary Poppins stories: Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Comes Back, Mary Poppins Opens the Door, Mary Poppins in the Park, and Mary Poppins in Cherry Tree Lane / Mary Poppins and the House Next Door (2-in-1 edi... View More

Author(s): P. L. Travers
Illustrator(s): Mary Shepard
Agnes Sims

A Pelican at Blandings (2010)

Lord Emsworth harassed by self-invited Dukes and sisters, young hearts that are sundered and crooks on the prowl summons Galahad to the rescue.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

A Prefect’s Uncle (2010)

When Alan Gethryn’s uncle joins his house as a junior, embarrassing situations arise for the head of Leicester’s house.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Prince Valiant Volume 2 1939-1940 (2010)

This second volume includes the strips covering 1939 to 1940. This popular adventure strip, set in the days of King Arthur was written and drawn by Hal Foster from 1937 to 1971. For almost all of the run it was a full-page strip.... View More

Author(s): Hal Foster
Illustrator(s): Hal Foster

Service with a Smile (2010)

Once again Lord Emsworth is troubled by Dukes and sisters. This time Uncle Fred kindly agrees to come down to Blandings to straighten things out - oh, and save the Empress from being sold down the river (Bucks).

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

The Girl in Blue (2011)

The plot revolves around a Gainsborough miniature, lovers (star-crossed), butlers, yeggs, etc, etc, etc.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

The Gold Bat (2011)

A tale of Wrykyn, an English ‘public’ school, cricket and certain pranks, one of which targeted the local MP.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Ice in the Bedroom (2011)

Leila Yorke takes a villa in Valley Fields next door to Freddy Widgeon, who just happens to be besotted of her secretary Sally Foster, so she can write her grey ‘Hardy/Gissing’ novel to astound the critics of her romance novels. Complicat... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Ice in the Bedroom (2011)

Leila Yorke takes a villa in Valley Fields next door to Freddy Widgeon, who just happens to be besotted of her secretary Sally Foster, so she can write her grey ‘Hardy/Gissing’ novel to astound the critics of her romance novels. Complicat... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Love Among the Chickens: Revised (2011)

Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge makes his first appearance in this novel. He persuades his friend Jeremy Garnet, an Old Wrykynian, to join him and his wife in a chicken ranch. Jeremy meets Phyllis Derrick on the train to Lyme Regis and sets out to ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

The Man Upstairs and Other Stories (2011)

A collection of short stories that appeared in magazines such as The Strand, Cosmopolitan, and Collier’s.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Mike at Wrykyn (2011)

In Mike at Wrykyn Mike Jackson wins his first XI colors at Wrykyn in his first year, as set forth in the first part of the serialization of this novel ‘Jackson Junior,’ but two years later his father rusticates him to Sedleigh due to his ... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

Prince Valiant Volume 3 1941-1942 (2011)

This third volume includes the strips covering 1941 to 1942. This popular adventure strip, set in the days of King Arthur was written and drawn by Hal Foster from 1937 to 1971. For almost all of the run it was a full page strip.... View More

Author(s): Hal Foster
Illustrator(s): Hal Foster

The Pursued (2011)

A mother avenges her daughter’s murder.

Author(s): C. S. Forester
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Robinson Crusoe (2011)

First published is 1719, this account of ‘eight and twenty years, all alone on an uninhabited island on the coast of America’ was based on the experiences of Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on an island in the Pacific Ocean.While most... View More

Author(s): Daniel Defoe
Illustrator(s): George Cruikshank

Spring Term (2011)

Nicola and Lawrie are finishing their third year at Kingscote in this continuation of the Marlow saga.

Author(s): Sally Hayward
Illustrator(s): Ken Websdale

The Adventures of Sally (2012)

Sally Nicholas is a popular young woman who lives in a boarding house in New York and works as a taxi dancer. Upon reaching her twenty-first birthday, she inherits a considerable fortune. Sally tries to adjust to her new life, but financial and roman... View More

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Unknown

Bachelors Anonymous (2012)

Movie mogul Ivor Llewellyn needs his friends at Bachelors Anonymous to keep him out of extra-marital romantic entanglements.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Osbert Lancaster

Company for Henry (2012)

Jane’s Uncle Henry is possessed of an ancestral seat which he would be happy to be rid of and a certain seventeenth century French paperweight that his American cousin covets for his collection.

Author(s): P. G. Wodehouse
Illustrator(s): Andrzej Klimwoski

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