Quotations from P G Wodehouse are copyright of, and reprinted by permission of, the Trustees of the Wodehouse Estate © 2012 The P G Wodehouse Society (UK)

Books

Keen readers may care to know that the current Book People catalogue is offering a collection of 10 Arrow paperback Wodehouse books for £9.99 - an absolute steal! The perfect gift for your Wodehouse lover, or to top up your own collection. Go to their website (click here), click on Collections, the Arrow are item 20 in the list, or thereabouts.

Be Green and also find P G Wodehouse books ... A member of the Society has kindly forwarded us information on a website found via the Daily Telegraph. The website sells second-hand books for £3.75, including a donation to The Woodland Trust. It is also 'Green' in that books are effectively being recycled. There are a number of PGW books available - simply type in 'Wodehouse' in their search facility. Whilst the Society cannot recommend individual websites or dealers selling PGW-related material, we place the information and link here in case it may be of interest to our members: www.greenmetropolis.com

P G W Bookdealer in Oz David Herboldt, a member of the society from Australia, has sent us information on a bookdealer in New South Wales who specialises in early editions etc of Plum's work. Whilst the Society cannot recommend individual dealers, we place the information here in case it may be of interest to our Australian members. The company is called Lamdha Books and the link below can be used to view their website: www.lamdhabooks.com.au

New volume of Plum's letters - Oxford English tutor Sophie Radcliffe has edited a new collection of PG Wodehouse's letters, which will be published on 3 November 2011.

When did people start saying "What Ho!"?

Who were the Gibson girls?

Where did Buck-U-Uppo come from?

Who was Rosie M.Banks?

The Society's Remembrancer Norman Murphy has published a two-volume set of books answering everything you could possibly want to know about the sources for characters, places, objects etc. that appear in PG Wodehouse's books. Volume I is subtitled "The World Of Wodehouse", volume II is "The Words Of Wodehouse". The cost is £28/$56 for the pair. Not one to lead the life of the Idle Rich, Norman has spent 20 years researching this project and it follows his 1981 book In Search Of Blandings. An order form can be obtained here and a review can be seen here.

The Complete Lyrics of P G Wodehouse, 544 pages, collected and edited by Barry Day, has been published in the USA by the Scarecrow Press (ISBN 08108 49941). Tony Ring was editorial consultant. Together they wrote P G Wodehouse In His Own Words. Barry Day has also edited Noël Coward: The Complete Lyrics. The Complete Lyrics of P G Wodehouse should be available for £52.95. Members of the UK Society pay £42.36 if they quote the reference UKWODE04 and place orders with the UK distributors NBN Plymbridge, Estover Road, Plymouth, PL6 7PY (01752 202301) or email orders@nbnplymbridge.com. Postage and packing within the UK is 10% of the invoiced price.

Biography

Prion Books have republished in paperback "P G Wodehouse" by Frances Donaldson at £10. Prion Books also publish a series called Humour Classics, including Max Beerbohm, "The Diary of a Nobody", "Three Men in a Boat", a Saki anthology, EF Benson, SJ Perelman, and many more. If you want to join the club they are starting for this series, email humour@prion.co.uk, or write to Prion Humour, Freepost, Lon12574, London NW5 1YR, and send them your name and address. They will send you quarterly bulletins.

Dealers

by David Herboldt

The website asks for details of good dealers. I have tried david.garnsworthy@btinternet.com for a couple of books (PGW of course) and been very pleased with the quick service and good quality books. We also hear news of Peter Jones in Scarborough, who deals only in Wodehouse. We have not dealt with him ourselves, but he does offer Society members a 5% discount. See his site www.pgwodehousebooks.co.uk. I normally search either ABE at http://www.abebooks.com/ Biblion http://www.biblion.com/ or UK BookWorld at http://ukbookworld.com/cgi-bin/search.pl - all of which have been a good source of PGW books. Another possible to try is BookFinder at http://www.bookfinder.com/ but I haven't actually tried that one yet. Of the ones above, ABE is Canadian-based, but many British dealers post books to it, so don't be put off (also, I have had books from US dealers in under 2 weeks). Hope this helps members chase that elusive book.

Biographers' Corner

Dominic Green has written a biography of his father Benny Green, called "Benny Green: Words and Music". Benny Green himself wrote a biography of Wodehouse called "P. G. Wodehouse: A Literary Biography" (published 1981), which is probably the best analysis of Wodehouse's musical and lyric-writing career. The new biography is published by London House, £17.99. ISBN 1 902809 39 4.

For news about Penguins: www.penguin.com

For buying rare or second-hand Wodehouse books: www.nigelwilliams.com. Nigel Williams, 22 & 25 Cecil Court, London WC2N 4HE; email nwrarebook@tcp.co.uk

For buying mainstream Wodehouse books online: www.bookshop.co.uk (see Advice on Buying Online).

Books available from bookshops, or Book Systems Plus, 01223-894870, credit cards accepted, email wodehouse@booksystemsplus.com, website www.booksystemsplus.com:

Wodehouse Millennium Concordance by Tony Ring and Geoffrey Jaggard:

Vol 1 Wodehouse in the Clubhouse (Golf) £15

Vol 2 Wodehouse at the Anglers' Rest (Mulliner) £17

Vol 3 Wodehouse Goes to School (School stories) £20

Vol 4 Wodehouse Among the Chickens (Ukridge) £14

Vol 5 Wodehouse at Blandings Castle (Blandings) £20

Vol 6 Wodehouse in Woostershire (Jeeves & Wooster) £22

Vol 7 Wodehouse with Old Friends (Drones etc.) £22

Vol 8 Wodehouse with New Friends (Singular characters)

A Man of Means (PGW + CH Bovill) £6

Tales of Wrykyn and Elsewhere 25 PGW school short stories £25

The Reminiscences of the Hon Galahad Threepwood ed. N T P Murphy £9

Lord Emsworth's Annotated Whiffle On the Care of the Pig ed. Hogg £15

Six illustrated Wooster & Jeeves novels, £18 each, £105 the set of six: Thank You Jeeves, The Code of the Woosters, Right Ho, Jeeves, The Mating Season, Joy in the Morning, Ring for Jeeves

The Plums of P G Wodehouse nine short stories and 59 extracts £20

You Simply Hit Them with an Axe by Tony Ring, £30; only available from 34 Longfield, Great Missenden, Bucks HP16 0EG