Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Jeeves and the King of Clubs | 2018 | Ben Schott | Buy |
| 2 | Jeeves and the Leap of Faith | 2020 | Ben Schott | Buy |
P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Wooster novels are among the most beloved comic fiction in the English language, following the hapless Bertie Wooster and his unflappable manservant Jeeves through a series of social disasters and unlikely rescues. After Wodehouse’s death in 1975, the characters remained largely off-limits for decades. Ben Schott’s two authorized novels, Jeeves and the King of Clubs (2018) and Jeeves and the Leap of Faith (2020), represent an officially sanctioned return to that world.
Schott approached the project as a careful student of Wodehouse’s technique. Both novels are narrated by Bertie in first person, maintain the era and social setting of the originals, and aim to reproduce the precise comic rhythm that makes Wodehouse’s work so distinctive. The plots draw on classic Wodehouse structures, including misunderstandings, aunts, engagements gone wrong, and Jeeves quietly solving everything, while introducing new situations and characters.
The books were published to positive notices from both critics and Wodehouse fans, which is a demanding audience for this kind of project. Whether Schott’s versions fully replicate the experience of reading Wodehouse is a matter of taste, but they stand as a serious and respectful attempt to keep the characters alive in new fiction.