The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize is the UK's only literary award for comic writing. The winner is presented with champagne, 52 volumes of the Everyman Wodehouse edition and a Gloucester Old Spot pig is also named after the winning novel! If you enjoy humorous novels why not try some of these winning titles?
Solar by Ian McEwan (braille 6v; giant print 3v; TB 17562)
Michael Beard is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose best work is behind him. When his professional and personal worlds collide, an opportunity presents itself, a chance for Beard to extricate himself from his marital mess, reinvigorate his career and save the world from environmental disaster. Contains strong language.
The Butt by Will Self (braille 6v; giant print 3v; TB 16236)
On holiday Tom Brodzinski throws a cigarette butt over a hotel balcony; it hits someone, and Tom finds himself accused of assault and swept up in arcane laws that set him on a journey of reparation. Contains strong language.
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka (braille 5v; TB 14197)
For years, Nadezhda and Vera, two Ukrainian sisters raised in England by their refugee parents, have had little to do with each other. But now they have to get along, because since their mother's death, their ageing father has been sliding into his second childhood, and an alarming new woman has just entered his life. Contains strong language.
Spies by Michael Frayn (braille 4v; giant print 2v; TB 15463)
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live, there is very little evidence of World War II. But the two friends suspect the inhabitants of the Close are not what they seem.