'A masterpiece in every sense' Daily MailThe Drones club's in peril. Gussie's in love. Spode's on the warpath. And His Majesty's Government needs a favour. Thank goodness Bertie Wooster is back!From the mean streets of Mayfair to the...

Schottenfreude is a unique, must-have dictionary, complete with newly coined words that explore the idiosyncrasies of life as only the German language can.Ever thought, There should be a German word for that? Well, thanks to the...

Building on Wodehouse's incalculable legacy, JEEVES AND THE KING OF CLUBS reimagines Bertie Wooster as a British spy, and the Junior Ganymede - the club for the gentleman's gentleman - as a branch of the British Secret Service. Full of...

Ben Schott is the author of Schott's Original Miscellany and its four sequels, which have been translated into twenty-one languages; six volumes of the yearbook Schott's Almanac; and Schottenfreude. He divides his time between London and...

Gleichermaßen Kochbuch, Weinführer, Haushaltsalmanach und kulinarische Kulturgeschichte, verwöhnt »Schotts Sammelsurium - Essen & Trinken« den geneigten Leser mit einer erlesenen Kollektion lebenswichtiger Nutzlosigkeiten aus der Welt...

Neue Zwergplaneten! Neue Unwörter! Neue meldepflichtige Krankheiten! Mehr tote Popstars! Die Welt verändert sich. Schotts Sammelsurium hält Schritt! Wo sich das unnütze Wissen dieser Welt auch verstecken mag, Ben Schott findet es: Sein...

_________________'This homage to P.G. Wodehouse is so good ... a masterpiece in every sense' MailThe Drones club's in peril. Gussie's in love. Spode's on the warpath. Oh, and His Majesty's Government needs a favour. I say - it's a good...

Schott's Original Miscellany makes few claims to be exhaustive or even practical. It does, however, claim to be essential. It will afford you great wisdom in the morning, several conversational bons mots for the afternoon, and many an...