A Blandings collection The ivied walls of Blandings Castle have seldom glowed as sunnily as in these wonderful stories - but there are snakes in the rolling parkland ready to nip Clarence the absent-minded Ninth Earl of Emsworth when he least expects it. For a start the Empress of Blandings in the running for her first prize in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show is off her food - and can only be coaxed back to the trough by a call in her own language. Then there is the feud with Head Gardener McAllister aided by Clarences sister the terrifying Lady Constance and the horrible prospect of the summer fête - twin problems solved by the arrival of a delightfully rebellious little girl from London. But first of all there is the vexed matter of the custody of the pumpkin. Skipping an ocean and a continent Wodehouse also treats us to some unputdownable stories of excess from the monstrous Golden Age of Hollywood.
