PG Wodehouse fans delighted at plans for Westminster Abbey tribute
(The Guardian Books News)

Ben Schott, author of a new Jeeves and Wooster novel, reported `a ripple of joy´ at the Wodehouse Society dinner when the tribute was announcedWestminster Abbey´s plans to dedicate a memorial to PG Wodehouse 43 years after his death have been welcomed by the Wodehouse Society and by Ben Schott, who described the Jeeves and Wooster creator as the `personification of a very specific breed of English writing`.Schott is author of the bestselling trivia collection Schott´s Original Miscellany, and his officially sanctioned `Wodehouse` novel Jeeves and the King of Clubs will be published next month. He said that when the news was announced to the Wodehouse Society dinner that the Dean of Westminster had given permission for a memorial to Wodehouse in the abbey, `there was a ripple of joy that it was happening, but also puzzlement that it hadn´t happened before`. Continue reading...