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Praise for Penny Vincenzi:

“ Nobody writes smart, page-turning commercial women’s fiction like Vincenzi.” —USA Today

“ Soap opera? You bet—but with her well-drawn characters and engaging style, Vincenzi keeps things humming.”—People

“ Will draw you in against your better judgment and keep you awake reading all night.” —The Boston Globe

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• The return of one of Overlook’s bestselling authors, whose books have sold hundreds of thousands of copies worldwide

“The doyenne of the modern blockbuster” (Glamour) returns with her signature writing style and eye for strong characters in A Perfect Heritage.

The House of Farrell is a prolific skincare com-pany and home of The Cream, an iconic face prod-uct that has seen women flocking to its flagship London store since 1953. At Farrell, you can rely on the personal touch that has been their trade-mark for generations. The legendary Athina Far-rell remains the company’s figurehead and in her kingdom at the Berkeley Arcade, while Florence Hamilton plies their cosmetics with the utmost care and discretion. She is sales advisor—and hold-er of secrets—extraordinaire.

But of course the world of cosmetics is chang-ing and the once glorious House of Farrell is now in decline, its customers tempted away by more fashionable brands. With no idea how to right the ship, Athina hires Bianca Bailey, a formidable busi-nesswoman, mother of three, and someone who always gets her way. Athina and Bianca lock horns over the future of the House of Farrell but it is the past that tells its devastating tale of ambition and ego, passion and wonder.

A perfect summer read, this is Penny Vincenzi at her finest.

“ Vincenzi is poised to fill the gap in the American realm of Cinderella fiction.” —Janet Maslin, The New York Times

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MY FIRST HUNDRED YEARS IN SHOW BUSINESS

A MEMOIR

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• A documentary about Mary Louise Wilson, She’s the Best Thing in It, directed by Oscar winner Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia), will be released in 2015

• Film and television appearances include Nebraska, Nurse Jackie, Louie, and many more

• Mary Louise Wilson will be on Broadway in 2015 in On the Twentieth Century, with Kristin Chenoweth

MARY LOUISE WILSON has acted on and off Broadway and in films and TV for nearly fifty years. Roles include Vera Joseph in 4000 Miles at Lincoln Center (Obie Award), Big Edie in Grey Gardens (Tony Award), Fraulein Schneider in Cabaret (Tony nomination), and Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop (Drama Desk Award). Her writing has appeared in the New Yorker and The New York Times and she teaches acting at Tulane. She lives in upstate New York.

Mary Louise Wilson became a star at age sixty with her smash one-woman play Full Gallop portraying legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. But before and since, her life and her career—including the Tony Award for her portrayal of Big Edie in Grey Gardens—have been enviably celebrated and varied.

Raised in New Orleans with a social climbing, alcoholic mother, Mary Louise moved to New York City in the late 1950s; lived with her gay brother in the Village; entered the nightclub scene in a legendary review; and rubbed shoulders with every famous person of that era and since. My First Hundred Years in Show Business gets it all down. Yet as delicious as the anecdotes are, the heart of this book is in its un-blinkingly honest depiction of the life of a working actor. In her inimitable voice—wry, admirably unsentimental, mordantly funny—Mary Louise Wilson has crafted a work that is at once a teeming social his-tory of the New York theatre scene and a thoroughly revealing, superbly entertain-ing memoir of the life of an extraordinary woman and actor.

The unabashedly funny and forthright memoir by the Tony Award winner for Grey Gardens

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Praise for Waterloo:

“ I was gripped by the wealth of detail and humanity in the book. . . . This is how the tales of battles should be told, whatever the time, place or outcome.” —Emily Mayhew, author of Wounded

PAUL O’KEEFFE is a lecturer and writer. He was awarded a PhD by the University of Liverpool. He is the author of several highly acclaimed books, including biographies of Wyndham Lewis, the artist Benjamin Robert Hayden, and the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska.

In the early morning hours of June 19, 1815, more than 50,000 men and 7,000 horses lay dead and wounded on a battle-field just south of Brussels. In the hours, days, weeks and months that followed, news of the battle would begin to shape the consciousness of an age; the battle-grounds would be looted and cleared, its dead buried or burned, its ground and ru-ins overrun by voyeuristic tourists; the vic-torious British and Prussian armies would invade France and occupy Paris. And as his enemies within and without France closed in, Napoleon saw no avenue ahead but surrender, exile and captivity.

In this dramatic account of the aftermath of the battle of Waterloo, Paul O'Keeffe employs a multiplicity of contemporary sources and viewpoints to create a reading experience that brings into focus as never before the sights, sounds, and smells of the battlefield, of conquest and defeat, of celebration and riot.

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were part of the soul and heartbeat of the region for centuries, until one day their neighbors sought to erase them. A tombstone erected in memory of the Jews who fell fighting in World War I calls out in Hebrew letters: “Peace, peace to the near and far.”

From The Habit of Labor:

I did not go inside. I did not speak with anyone. Later, in 1963, when I lived for over a year with my family in Holland, where I started the first Israeli factory overseas, we would sometimes travel for a ski weekend in Switzerland and pass by Kippenheim. My wife Miriam did not understand my aversion for the place. . . . I would enter Kippenheim by myself, now a place devoid of Jews. Those who did not leave in time died in the camps. Only in the local Jewish cemetery, in Schmieheim, can you find many familiar names. . . . The gravestones attest to generations of Jews—physicians, merchants, intellectuals—who

Forced to flee Nazi Germany with his family at age 10, Stef Wertheimer came to British Palestine in the late 1930s. He promptly dropped out of school, learned a trade through apprenticeship, and played a meaningful role in Israel’s War of Indepen-dence. He also started a company—ISCAR—that began in a shed and ultimately made him one of the world’s great self-made industrialists.

In The Habit of Labor, Wertheimer shares the lessons he learned from a life of strife and

struggle in one of the world’s newest indus-trial powers. Both a pragmatist and a vision-ary, Wertheimer has devoted much of his life to promoting Jewish and Arab economic de-velopment through innovative educational and vocational programs, along with the establishment of a series of thriving industrial parks in Israel and in Turkey. The future of Israel, he believes, is not in military might or diplomatic alliances but in its growing economic clout.

“ There’s no better way to explain the miracle of Israel than to examine the amazing life of Stef Wertheimer.” —Warren Buffett

THE HABIT OF LABORLessons from a Life of Struggle and Success in the State of Israel

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STEF WERTHEIMER is a German-born Israeli businessman, philanthropist and former politician. In 1952, he founded the company ISCAR and eventually grew it into a multinational, multibillion-dollar corporation, later selling his stake to billionaire investor Warren Buffett in 2006. A former Member of the Knesset, he has taken an active role in Israeli policy. He lives in Jerusalem.

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The stunning mystery from “the perfect author to read late into the night” (Clive Cussler)

Annie O'Neill has it all: a cozy Manhattan apartment, a beautiful bookshop and a network of supportive friends. But at the heart of her life is a hole—a place vacated by her father when he died in her child-hood. So when a mysterious man named Forrester enters the shop and claims to be her father's oldest friend she jumps at the chance to find out more of her own past. But Forrester's not being free with the an-swers she needs. He's much more inter-ested in telling her a story about a ruthless ganglord and a fifty-year-old betrayal. A betrayal that she will realize far too slowly, has something very much to do with her.

Praised by Alan Furst as "a uniquely gifted, passionate, and powerful writer, R. J. Ellory returns with another expertly crafted thriller.

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• For fans of Marley and Me• An inspiring story of

companionship and redemption

JOHN DOLAN is a critically-acclaimed artist living and working in Shoreditch, east London. For the past three years he and his dog George have sat out on Shoreditch High Street, while John sketched the world around him. Some of his sketches formed part of John’s first solo show, George the Dog, John the Artist, which was a sell out in September 2013.

For years, John Dolan had been living rough, trying his best to get by. Born and bred on the estates of east London, his early life was marked by neglect and abuse, and his childhood gift for drawing was stamped out by the tough realities out-side his front door. As he grew older, he turned to petty crime to support himself and ended up in prison. On coming out, he soon found himself on the streets, sur-viving day-by-day, living hand-to-mouth.

It wasn’t until he met George, a home-less Staffy puppy, that his life changed for the better. To begin with, George was a handful: he had been abused himself and was scared of human contact. Soon, John and George became inseparable. It was then that John decided to pick up his long-forgotten gift for drawing, sitting on the sidewalk for hours at a time, sketch-ing pictures of George that he would sell to passers-by. With his best friend by his side, and a pencil in his hand, John suddenly found his life’s calling.

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From The War at the Edge of the World:

The army assembled before dawn. All night the legionaries had marched through dry ravines and rocky slopes, stumbling in dusty darkness with muffled weapons, forbidden to make a sound as they flanked the enemy position. Now, as the first rays of sun lit the snows of the high mountain ranges, they saw the royal encampment of the King of Persia in the brown valley below them, with their enemies spilling from the gates in confusion. Already in their hearts was the promise of a battle won.Twenty-five thousand men formed a battle line over a mile long. Massed squadrons of cavalry held the

higher ground at the flanks: mailed Sarmatian lancers, Dalmatian light horsemen, mounted archers from Armenia and Osrhoene. Between them stood five thousand allied Gothic tribesmen in full barbaric array, fierce warriors from beyond the empire’s northern boundaries. But at the center of the line were ten thousand armored infantrymen drawn from the crack legions of the Danube frontier. As the sun rose, the light gleamed off helmets of burnished iron and bronze, hauberks of mail and scale, the bristling tips of spears and javelins and the serried lines of oval shields.

The epic first installment in a new series set at the end of empire in the reign of the Emperor Con-stantine, The War at the Edge of the World follows newly promoted centurion Aurelius Castus into the tumultuous battle for the future of Rome.

Once a soldier in an elite legion from the Danube, now stuck in Britain's provincial backwa-ter, Castus believes his glory days are over. But fate is about to intervene. When the king of the Picts,

the savage people beyond Hadrian’s Wall, dies in mysterious circumstances, Castus is selected to command the bodyguard of a Roman envoy sent to negotiate with the barbarians.

But the diplomatic mission ends in bloody tragedy. Castus and his men are soon fighting for their lives and the legionary discovers that nothing about his doomed mission was ever what it seemed.

A veteran soldier defends the receding borders of the Roman Empire in the first installment to a thrilling new series

THE WAR AT THE EDGE OF THE WORLDTwilight of Empire, Book One

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IAN JAMES ROSS has been researching and writing about the later Roman world and its army for over a decade. He spent a year in Italy teaching English, but now lives in Bath, England.

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“ Fry begins with an unnecessary apology for the ordinariness of his writing, and then proceeds to write masterfully, assessing himself with his signature blend of self-loathing and baffled amusement . . . The memoir stands as proof of the author's intelligence, wit, and insight.” —Entertainment Weekly

“ The Fry Chronicles is so slickly charming it seems churlish to harrumph.” —The Wall Street Journal

Praise for Stephen Fry:

“ This is, above all else, a thoughtful book. And namedroppy too, and funny . . . Its camaraderie of tone lets it wear its learning lightly yet leaves you with . . . new insights, new ways of looking at things.” —The Guardian

“ Funny, poignant . . . His prose feels like an ideal form of conversation.” —The Washington Post

“ Delightful . . . To read this book is to fall in love (perhaps not for the first time) with its subjects . . . Strongly recommended.” —National Review

By his early thirties, Stephen Fry—writer, come-dian, star of stage and screen—had, as they say, “made it.” Much loved on British television, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for him.

As the ’80s drew to a close, he began to burn the candle at both ends. Writing and recording by day, and haunting a neverending series of celebrity parties, drinking dens, and poker games by night,

he was a high functioning addict. He was so busy, so distracted by the high life, that he could hardly see the inevitable, headlong tumble that must sure-ly follow . . .

Filled with raw, electric extracts from his dia-ries of the time, More Fool Me is a brilliant, elo-quent account by a man driven to create and to entertain—revealing a side to him he has long kept hidden.

Stephen Fry invites readers to take a glimpse at his life story in the unputdownable More Fool Me

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STEPHEN FRY is an award-winning comedian, actor, presenter, and director. He is also the bestselling author of four novels—The Stars’ Tennis Balls, Making History, The Hippopotamus, and The Liar—as well as two previous memoirs—Moab Is My Washpot and The Fry Chronicles.

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SIMON SCARROW is the bestselling author of the Roman Legion series. Hie was educated at the University of East Anglia and lectured in history before becoming a full-time writer. He is the author of Centurion, The Gladiator, and The Zealot all available from Overlook.

A messenger on the streets of Rome has been intercepted and tortured, reveal-ing a plot to sabotage the Roman army's campaign against Caratacus, commander of Britannia's native tribes. A treacherous agent's mission is to open a second front of attack against them and eliminate the two Roman soldiers who could stand in the way.

Unwarned, Cato and Macro are with the Roman army pursuing Caratacus and his men through the mountains of Britannia. Defeating Caratacus finally seems within their grasp. But the plot against the two heroes threatens not only their military goals but also their lives.

A master of his craft, Simon Scarrow is fast becoming a worldwide phenomenon. Brothers in Blood features the vivid histori-cal detail and gripping battles his fans have come to expect, but the stakes are higher than ever for Cato and Macro.

By the international bestselling author Simon Scarrow, the heart-pounding newest installment in the Roman Legion series

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g r a i lDiscovering the True location of the Cup of Christ in Modern-Day spain

MargariTa Torres sevilla and JosÉ Miguel orTega Del rio

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MARGARITA TORRES SEVILLA is Professor of Medieval History at the University of León and Visiting Scholar at St John’s College, Cambridge. JOSÉ MIGUEL ORTEGA DEL RÍO has a PhD in Art History at the University of Valladolid and a Masters in Museology from the Complutense University of Madrid. ROSIE MARTEAU read Modern & Medieval Languages at Cambridge University and translates Spanish and French.

Recently discovered parchments in the Egyptian University of Al-Azhar have fi-nally made it possible to identify the loca-tion where the Holy Grail has been kept for the last 1,000 years. Their discovery led Margarita Torres Sevilla and José Miguel Ortega del Río on a three-year investi-gation as they traced the Grail’s journey across the globe and discovered its final resting place in the Basilica of San Isidoro in León, Spain.

Translated by Rosie Marteau, this is the definitive guide to one of history’s most sought-after treasures, the origin and object of both Arthurian myth and Christian legend, offering meticulously researched information to support an ex-traordinary discovery. Kings of the Grail presents the new, definitive historical and scientific facts that have come to light, un-ravelling the mystery that has surrounded the Holy Grail and taking the reader on a compelling and thought-provoking journey back through time.

The explosive new book that reveals the true location of the Holy Grail—hidden in plain sight for centuries

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KINGS OF THE GRAILDiscovering the True Location of the Cup of Christ in Modern-Day Spain

MARGARITA TORRES SEVILLA AND JOSÉ MIGUEL ORTEGA DEL RÍOTranslated from Spanish by Rosie Marteau

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Praise for Under Another Sky:

“ Beautifully crafted. The beauty of this book is not just in the elegant prose . . . It is in the sympathy that she shows for the myth-makers.” —Peter Stothard, The Times

• Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and the Hessell-Tiltman Prize, two of the most prestigious nonfiction book prizes in the UK

CHARLOTTE HIGGINS studied Classics at Balliol College, Oxford. She is the chief arts writer for The Guardian.

What does Roman Britain mean to us now? How were its physical remains re-discovered and made sense of? How has it been reimagined, in story and song and verse?

Sometimes on foot, sometimes in a magnificent, if not entirely reliable, VW camper van, Charlotte Higgins sets out to explore the ancient monuments of Roman Britain. She explores the land that was once Rome’s northernmost territory and how it has changed since the years after the empire fell. Under Another Sky invites us to see the British landscape, and British his-tory, in an entirely fresh way: as indelibly marked by how the Romans first imagined and wrote, these strange and exotic islands, perched on the edge of the known world, into existence.

Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, the captivating and haunting exploration of the remnants of an empire

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You think it Strangea memoir

Dan Burt

DAN BURT is a writer whose poetry and prose have appeared in PN Review, the TLS, the Financial Times, and the New Statesman, among others. He splits his time between Maine, London, and St. John’s College, Cambridge, of which he is an Honorary Fellow.

“Prostitution, gambling, fencing, contract murder, loan sharking, political corrup-tion . . . crimes of every sort were the daily trade in Philadelphia’s Tenderloin, the oldest part of town. The Kevitch family ruled this stew for half a century, from Prohibition to the rise of Atlantic City. My mother was a Kevitch.”

So begins poet Dan Burt’s moving, emotional memoir of life on the danger-ous streets of downtown Philadelphia. The son of a butcher and an heiress to an or-ganized crime empire, Burt rejected the harsh world of his upbringing, eventually renouncing his home country as well and forging a new life in the UK. But in this riveting reappraisal of his childhood, Burt wrestles with the idea that home leaves an indelible mark that can never truly be left behind.

The piercing, heartbreaking memoir of growing up on the crime-ridden streets of Philadelphia and charting a new path

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“A stirring successor to Frederick Forsyth.”—INDEPENDENT

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In the gripping third book of the critically acclaimed Jimmy Nessheim series, the fate of America’s critical nuclear program, and the outcome of World War II itself, is at stake.

It’s the fall of 1942 and Special Agent Jimmy Nessheim is a student again, even though America is at war. On extended leave from the FBI, he’s enrolled in law school at the University of Chicago. Ostensibly a full-time student, Nessheim has also been assigned to assist the mili-tary security guarding a scientific program called the Manhattan Project. In Chicago, its work takes place underneath the stands of Stagg Field, the university’s unused football stadium. Drawn once again into a web of international intrigue, Nessheim faces his most deadly threat yet.

Praise for The Little Tokyo Informant:

“ Compelling, intelligent entertainment.” —Booklist (starred review)

“ Rosenheim is even better this time out.” —Publishers Weekly

“ Rosenheim’s characters are sharply defined and exhibit the mannerisms and language of the early 1940s.” —Mystery Scene

ANDREW ROSENHEIM grew up in Chicago and in a small town in Michigan. He went to Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar in 1977 and has lived in England ever since. For many years he worked in publishing, at Oxford University Press and Penguin Books among others, and is now a full-time writer.

The spellbinding conclusion to the Jimmy Nessheim trilogy, by the author of Fear Itself

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THE ACCIDENTAL AGENTA Jimmy Nessheim Novel

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MARK BEAUMONT is a leading award-winning music journalist and has written for NME, The Guardian, Uncut and Classic Rock. He is the author of the bestseller Out of This World: The Story of Muse and Jay Z: The King of America, both published by Omnibus Press. He lives in London.

Kanye West is undoubtedly one of pop cul-ture’s most divisive and fascinating char-acters. Alongside his multimillion selling albums, Kanye has also launched record labels and clothing lines and in the process, become one of the most respected, creative and influential artists in music today.

The most in-depth look at West’s life and career to date, Mark Beaumont’s new book lifts the mask to expose the man be-hind the endless myths. Featuring quotes from all of the major players in West’s life, Kanye West: God and Monster traces his life from the suburbs of Chicago through art school and rap apprenticeships to record-ing in the coolest studios of New York and Hawaii with the biggest names in mu-sic, revolutionizing hip-hop at every step of the way. Beaumont documents every rumor and revelation, details the wildest extravagances and biggest ego blow-ups of this true rap original.

The ultimate profile of the legendary pop culture titan

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The Wodehouse collection continues with more sparkling classics from the master of hijinks and social comedy

LOUDER AND FUNNIER

THE PRINCE AND BETTY

P. G. WODEHOUSE

Louder and Funnier 978-1-4683-1131-0$19.95 (NCR) 160 pp.

The Prince and Betty 978-1-4683-1132-7$19.95 (NCR) 160 pp.Fiction/Humor 5 x 7 1⁄2Export rights: F00

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P. G. Wodehouse is recognized as the greatest English comic writers of the twen-tieth century, rightly admired throughout the world and translated into more than thirty languages. Launched on the twenty-fifth anniversary of his death, this series presents each Overlook Wodehouse as the finest edition of the master’s work ever published—beautifully designed and faithful to the original.

This season, Overlook is pleased to offer the latest two hilarious volumes. Louder and Funnier is a collection of articles written for Vanity Fair, with sub-jects ranging from Shakespeare and di-vorce to income tax and ocean liners. The Prince and Betty is an engrossing, hilari-ous story of an unscrupulous millionaire and his plans to build a casino in the Mediterranean. Revised by Wodehouse af-ter the initial publication, it features the master’s signature reflections on the rich in one of his classic novels.

P. G. WODEHOUSE (1881–1975) spent much of his life in Southampton, New York, but was born in England and educated in Surrey. He became an American citizen in 1955. In a literary career spanning more than seventy years, he published more than ninety books and twenty film scripts, and collaborated on more than thirty plays and musical comedies.

Praise for P. G. Wodehouse:

“ To open almost any of Wodehouse’s books is to open a door into endless summer.” —Michael Dirda, The Wall Street Journal

“ Wodehouse's idyllic world can never stale. He will continue to release future generations from captivity that may be more irksome than our own.” —Evelyn Waugh

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Praise for The Collector’s Wodehouse series from Overlook

“ Handsome, affordable hardcover editions . . . Wodehouse is an anodyne to annoyances. He’s a tonic for those suffering from bearable but burdensome loads of boredom, from jadedness of outlook and dinginess of soul.” —The New Yorker

“ Could a P. G. Wodehouse revival be more timely? Overlook Press, which is reissuing Wodehouse’s comic novels, clearly has its finger on America’s pulse. . . . With its sumptuously bound editions, Overlook Press has done the master proud.” —Los Angeles Times

“ Wodehouse’s novels are the very definition of British humor—bubblingly witty and dryly loony. And as Overlook continues its reissue of these absurd souffles, you can buy the work for yourself in suave hardcover volumes, the dust jackets as natty as the prose.” —Entertainment Weekly

“ The volumes of the Collector’s Wodehouse are fine indeed. . . . I am hard-pressed to think of a recent publishing project as ambitious and successful as this one.” —The Washington Post

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“ Could a P. G. Wodehouse revival be more timely? Overlook Press, which is reissuing Wodehouse’s comic novels, clearly has its finger on America’s pulse. . . . With its sumptuously bound editions, Overlook Press has done the master proud.” —Los Angeles Times

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P. G. Wodehouse titles from The Overlook Press

“ The volumes of the Collector’s Wodehouse are fine indeed. . . . I am hard-pressed to think of a recent publishing project as ambitious and successful as this one.” —The Washington Post

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