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Beyond the Pawpaw Trees: The Story of Anna Lavinia (2011)

On a lavender blue day Anna Lavinia learns she is to visit her Aunt Sophia Maria, so she sets off next day with an umbrella, a gardenia bush, a carpetbag full of pawpaw jelly and her cat Strawberry.

Author(s): Palmer Brown
Illustrator(s): Palmer Brown

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

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

The Old Reliable (2011)

A collection of characters congregate in and around the mansion of former silent screen star Adela Shannon Cork. The right man gets the right girl in the end. This novel was derived from a play, which was derived from the novel Spring Fever.... View More

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

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

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

Mike and Psmith (2012)

Originally published as the second part of Mike. On his first day at his new public school Mike meets Psmith, the P is silent, a superannuated Etonian.

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

The Moomins and the Great Flood (2012)

In this, the very first Moomin book, Moominmamma and Moomintroll search for the missing Moominpappa. Read online at archive.org. ... View More

Author(s): Tove Jansson
Illustrator(s): Tove Jansson

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves (2012)

Gussie Fink-Nottle seems to have lost his affection for Madeline Bassett, meaning Bertie is on the hook again, so he rallies round, only to find himself deeper in the swamp. Fortunately Jeeves comes to the rescue, but at the price of Bertie’s a... View More

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

French Leave (2013)

The story of three American sisters and their adventures in France. Based on a play ‘Three Blind Mice’ by Guy Bolton.

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

If I Were You (2013)

In a tip of the hat to Gilbert and Sullivan, P.G. Wodehouse presents Anthony, Fifth Earl of Droitwich and hairdresser Syd Price who may or may not have been switched by the nanny.

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

Pearls, Girls and Monty Bodkin (2013)

Monty is putting in his second year of servitude to Ivor Llewellyn to earn Gertrude Butterwick’s hand when he discovers that Sandy Miller is really the one for him. The usual gang of crooks is prowling around Mrs. Llewellyn’s pearls and g... View More

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

The Small Bachelor (2013)

George Finch comes into some money and decides to move to New York and be a painter. He soon falls in love with Molly Waddington, but she comes with complicated relations, and there are crooks hovering around with their eye on her pearls.

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

The White Feather (2013)

Sheen funks it when faced with fighting a townee and Wrykyn shuns him. He takes tuition and wins his class at Aldershot.

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

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