This is a book of 12 short stories by P.G. Wodehouse. The first six are excellent as they involve the familiar characters of Blandings Castle such as Lord Emsworth, his son Freddie Threepwood, Beach the butler and the monumental Empress of Blandings who wins her first silver medal in the Fat Pigs Class at the Shropshire Agricultural Show in the classic short story PIG-HOO-O-O-O-EY. Hopefully, the publisher doesn’t feel the need to change this story in the future so that the Fat Pigs class becomes the Monumental Pigs class or something similar. The Empress consumes 58000 calories a day and so is rather overweight.

The seventh story is a Bobby Wickham story and the last five all relate to the Mulliners of Hollywood. I didn’t enjoy these stories as much.

In chronological terms, these Blandings Castle short stories come after “Leave It To PSmith” but before “Summer Lightning” so the Empress wins her first silver medal in this book but struggles to repeat her success in both “Summer Lightning” and “Heavy Weather”.