P. G. Wodehouse

The Clicking of Cuthbert

£49.95

Illustrated By Paul Cox

Introduced By Lawrence Donegan

P. G. Wodehouse, celebrated master of wordplay and comic timing, captures all the drama of the fairway in this charming collection of golfing short stories.

The Clicking of Cuthbert

£49.95
Book Details
 
Presentation Box & BindingThree-quarter bound in blocked buckram with a printed textured-paper front board
Plain slipcase
Printed colour endpapers
Dimensions8¾ inches x 5½ inches
FontSet in Goudy
Pages208 pages
AuthorP. G. Wodehouse
Illustrated ByPaul Cox
IllustrationColour frontispiece and 41 integrated black-and-white illustrations
Publication Date04/09/2019
Editor's Notes
 
So asks one frustrated young man in the first story in this collection, and with his trademark wit and painfully keen observational eye, P. G. Wodehouse proceeds to give a series of delightful answers to this desperate question. Selected by Wodehouse, a keen golfer himself, the ten stories presented here are accompanied by a flood of lively new illustrations by Folio favourite Paul Cox, who has also created a spectacular set of colour endpapers offering a map of Wodehouse’s fictional Woodhaven course. Lawrence Donegan, editor of the golf journal McKellar, has written an introduction exclusively for this edition.

About the Illustrator

Paul Cox

Paul Cox is one of Britain’s most instantly recognisable illustrators. Born and raised in London, he remained there to study at the Camberwell College of Art and the Royal College of Art in Kensington. His unquestionable talent has seen him receive commissions from newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Vanity Fair and The Times. Cox has provided illustrations for some of Folio’s best-loved books, including Experiences of an Irish RM (1984), My Family and Other Animals (2017) and a host of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels.

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About the Illustrator

Paul Cox

Paul Cox is one of Britain’s most instantly recognisable illustrators. Born and raised in London, he remained there to study at the Camberwell College of Art and the Royal College of Art in Kensington. His unquestionable talent has seen him receive commissions from newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Vanity Fair and The Times. Cox has provided illustrations for some of Folio’s best-loved books, including Experiences of an Irish RM (1984), My Family and Other Animals (2017) and a host of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels.

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About the Illustrator

Paul Cox

Paul Cox is one of Britain’s most instantly recognisable illustrators. Born and raised in London, he remained there to study at the Camberwell College of Art and the Royal College of Art in Kensington. His unquestionable talent has seen him receive commissions from newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Vanity Fair and The Times. Cox has provided illustrations for some of Folio’s best-loved books, including Experiences of an Irish RM (1984), My Family and Other Animals (2017) and a host of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels.

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About the Illustrator

Paul Cox

Paul Cox is one of Britain’s most instantly recognisable illustrators. Born and raised in London, he remained there to study at the Camberwell College of Art and the Royal College of Art in Kensington. His unquestionable talent has seen him receive commissions from newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Vanity Fair and The Times. Cox has provided illustrations for some of Folio’s best-loved books, including Experiences of an Irish RM (1984), My Family and Other Animals (2017) and a host of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels.

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About the Illustrator

Paul Cox

Paul Cox is one of Britain’s most instantly recognisable illustrators. Born and raised in London, he remained there to study at the Camberwell College of Art and the Royal College of Art in Kensington. His unquestionable talent has seen him receive commissions from newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Vanity Fair and The Times. Cox has provided illustrations for some of Folio’s best-loved books, including Experiences of an Irish RM (1984), My Family and Other Animals (2017) and a host of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels.

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About the Illustrator

Paul Cox

Paul Cox is one of Britain’s most instantly recognisable illustrators. Born and raised in London, he remained there to study at the Camberwell College of Art and the Royal College of Art in Kensington. His unquestionable talent has seen him receive commissions from newspapers and magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including the Daily Telegraph, the Spectator, Vanity Fair and The Times. Cox has provided illustrations for some of Folio’s best-loved books, including Experiences of an Irish RM (1984), My Family and Other Animals (2017) and a host of P. G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels.

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Pelham Grenville Wodehouse wrote more than 90 novels and some 300 short stories over 73 years. Best known for the escapades of Bertie Wooster and Jeeves, Wodehouse also brought his readers stories of Lord Emsworth and his cherished pig, the Empress of Blandings; the disreputable Ukridge; Psmith, the elegant socialist; and the Oldest Member at the Golf Club. He wrote lyrics and scripts for composers including Gershwin, Berlin and Porter. In 1936 he received the Mark Twain Medal in recognition of his ‘outstanding and lasting contribution to the happiness of the world’, and in 1975 he received a knighthood.

Lawrence Donegan is the founder and editor of the literary golf journal McKellar and a former golf correspondent for the Guardian newspaper. His book Four-Iron in the Soul, an account of a year spent caddying on the European Tour, won the United States Golf Association’s 1998 Herbert Warren Wind Award. Donegan currently lives in California and plays to a golf handicap of six. His first novel, Shergar, will be published in 2019.