1. Cover of PG Wodehouse's England: Blandings And Beyond, a map and guide from Herb Lester Associates. Illustration shows a white-gloved hand holding a tray with a golfer, a vintage car, a country house and a pig, against a blue sky.
  2. Open blue packaging for Blandings And Beyond, illustrated with a country house window scene and classical columns, revealing the guide's cover showing a cocktail glass and a map.
  3. Overview of Blandings And Beyond, showing the guide's cover, a beermat, the full fold-out map with numbered locations across England, and a text spread listing entries including Valley Fields and the Threepwood Flat.
  4. Detail of the Blandings And Beyond map and text spread, showing illustrated buildings across the English Midlands with numbered locations, and entries including Mammoth Publishing Company and Romano's Restaurant.
  5. llustration from Blandings And Beyond of a figure lifting a colander like a hat, holding a stick of asparagus over his shoulder, against a yellow circle background."

Blandings And Beyond: PG Wodehouse’s England

£12.00
“

I can’t even begin to describe my delight with – well, the entire thing… nothing short of wonderful.

- Elin Woodger Murphy

In which we chart the permanently sun-dappled world of the writer known to devotees as the Master. The large-format map charts locations both fictional and real: Blandings Castle, Brinkley Court, the Drones Club, Bertie Wooster's London flat, Wodehouse's school, Dulwich College, and the bank where he endured a brief, unhappy period working as “the most inefficient clerk whose trouser seat ever polished a stool.”

In his works, PG Wodehouse avoided using real-life locations, yet close reading reveals clues. Making use of all available scholarship, and a lifetime absorbed by the world Wodehouse created, Blandings And Beyond is your passport to what Evelyn Waugh called “Mr Wodehouse’s idyllic world.”

Written by: Robert Bruce
Design: Daniele Simonelli

Folder contents
Map (400 x 690mm), beermat
Print
Litho-printed in Sussex, England using vegetable oil-based inks on sustainably sourced paper.