Here are a dozen stories to delight all Wodehouse addicts. A Crooning Tenor is attempting to captivate the affections of the Rev. Rupert Bingham's fiance; Lord Emsworth is striving to remove a pumpkin-shaped blot on the family escutcheon; the Hon. Freddie Threepwood is making a last-ditch attempt to convert Lady Alcester to the beneficial quality of Donaldson's Dog-Joy; and in the bar-parlour of the Anglers Rest, Mr Mulliner fascinates everyone with the secret history of old Hollywood.

On an autumn afternoon in 1882, William Trenchard sits smoking his pipe in the garden of his comfortable family home. When the creak of the garden gate heralds the arrival of an unexpected stranger, he is puzzled but not alarmed. The stranger announces himself as James Norton, but claims he is in reality Sir James Davenall, the man to whom Trenchard's wife Constance had been engaged, and who had committed suicide eleven years ago . . .

Alexander Kent
With All Despatcht

Spring 1792. A troubled peace with France means that even a frigate captain as famous as Richard Bolitho is forced to swallow his pride and visit the Admiralty daily to plead for a ship. But all he is offered is command of three topsail cutters. His task is to track down deserters, but the 'Brotherhood' he comes up against are brutal and dangerous. When a King's ransom is in peril and Bolitho is ordered to proceed-with all despatch-to recover it he will need all the loyalty and courage of his three gallant cutters if he is to fulfil his mission.