23 May to 7 November – Summer Lightning to appear at Keswick The Theatre-by-the-Lake, Keswick, has included Giles Havergal's successful adaptation of Summer Lightning as one of the three productions to be staged in repertory in its Main House during the 2009 Summer Season, which lasts from 23 May to 7 November. Please see our Latest News section for complete details of this production.

21 September to 16 October – "Plum Pie: A Celebration of the Life and Work of PG Wodehouse", at Heywood Hill The leading independent bookseller Heywood Hill, based at 10 Curzon Street, London W1, will be showing an exhibition entitled "Plum Pie: A Celebration of the Life and Work of PG Wodehouse". The exhibition will run from 21 September to 16 October 2009.

The exhibition will include an overview of Wodehouse's work, both as a novelist and in the theatre. It will reveal his working methods, from the evolution of a novel in note form to first manuscript drafts for publication. It will also display his work for Broadway, with programmes and sheet music. In the background music featuring Plum's lyrics will be played from time to time and the store will also be decorated with many of Wodehouse's unique similes. There will also be much much more, for example the origins of Jeeves and a section on PGW's doctorate at Oxford.

This exhibition really should not be missed by Wodehouseans everywhere. There will be an evening event for members of the society and details can be found in our recent edition of Wooster Sauce.

There will be Wodehouse material on sale, such as Norman Murphy's A Wodehouse Handbook and Tony Ring's The Wit and Wisdom of PG Wodehouse and Millennium Concordance Volumes.

Also there is the first opportunity to purchase Norman Murphy's long-awaited and much-anticipated Three Wodehouse Walks! This will be for sale exclusively at Heywood Hill, for the duration of the exhibition, at the reduced price of £8. Thereafter the price will be £10, although society members will be able to continue to purchase the book at £8 until 24 December 2009. This will make an ideal Christmas gift! Details of the members' discount will be in the next edition of Wooster Sauce.

A final word on the exhibition: the co-curators of the exhibition are Sir Edward Cazalet and Tony Ring. Need we say more in terms of how good this exhibition should prove to be? Some items on show will give a taste of Plum's working life and family life and there will be material on display that has rarely, if ever, been seen in public before. Don't miss it!

Click here for further information and to find out more about Heywood Hill.

Charles Spencer's Diary in the Daily Telegraph of 7 September 2009 features information about this exhibition and includes some wonderful quotes. Henry Blofeld, who will open the exhibition, says he defies “anyone to leave this charming exhibition without a smile on their face, except of course for the odd mastodonic aunt in midseason form”. Meanwhile, Stephen Fry believes Heywood Hill has played a blinder. “What better antidote during this pestilential year than Wodehouse?” To read his interesting and enthusiastic article, please click here.

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Along with the exhibition Heywood Hill will be holding a free competition. The prize is a set of all 66 superbly produced volumes so far published in the Everyman Wodehouse uniform edition! To receive a competition form please use the link to the Heywood Hill website provided above.

13 October – Society Meeting Venue: the Arts Club, 40 Dover Street, from 6 p.m. Entertainment TBA. The nearest Underground station for Dover Street is Green Park.

Another abbreviated Wodehouse Walk will take place prior to the meeting. To request this please use the contact details attached to the July Society Meeting notice.

19 October and 26 October – John Lithgow, Stories By Heart At The Lyttleton Theatre, part of The National Theatre on the South Bank in London, John Lithgow presents his "Stories By Heart" show on Monday, 19 October and Monday, 26 October 2009. He performs a double-bill of stories: Uncle Fred Flits By by PG Wodehouse and Haircut by Ring Lardner. For more information and to buy tickets for what should prove to be a memorable evening, please go to the National Theatre website by clicking here. A review of the show will appear on this website at a later date.