Tag: Ben Schott

Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

Jeeves and the Leap of Faith

by Ben Schott (Little, Brown and Company, 2020); audiobook read by Daniel Ings (Hachette, 2020)

Book cover: “Jeeves and the Leap of Faith” by Ben Schott (Little, Brown and Company, 2020); audiobook read by Daniel Ings (Hachette, 2020)

An earnest but ultimately pallid homage. The characters are in keeping, the plot suitably entangled. But while conscientious, Schott’s pastiche lacks the trenchant delivery with which Wodehouse chivvied his characters towards the denouement (here lacking). Ings’s audiobook reading is rather too restrained.

Jeeves and the King of Clubs

Jeeves and the King of Clubs

by Ben Schott (Hutchinson, 2018); audiobook read by James Lance (Bolinda, 2018)

Schott_Jeeves King Clubs

Schott faithfully dovetails his plot threads and recaptures much of Wodehouse’s loquacity, albeit without quite the same vim of expression or uproarious knack for aperçus. The world is right but the reading seems off. It really needed Hugh Laurie and/or Stephen Fry.