Imagine Bertie Wooster with no Jeeves to rescue him from disaster. Oswald Hattersley Blettisloe Thake is the ultimate English upper-class twit. A gentleman of far more leisure than sense, he lurches haplessly from calamity to calamity, describing everything (with glorious incomprehension) in his letters home to his friend Beachcomber. The Adventures of Mr Thake is an essential read for anyone interested in classic English humour. SALES * New cover for PB edition to position title firmly alongside P G Wodehouse * HB edition received glowing reviews in The Spectator, The Oldie and Daily Express * Perfect book to take on a holiday THE AUTHOR J B Morton wrote the famous Beachcomber column in The Express for almost 60 years. During his lifetime he was revered by Wodehouse and Waugh, among others. He died in 1979. REVIEWS 'Irresistibly
