The shortlist for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse comic fiction prize has been announced.
Alan Bennett - The Uncommon Reader
Garrison Keillor - Pontoon: A Novel of Lake Wobegon
Joe Dunthorne - Submarine
Julian Gough - Jude: Level 1
John Walsh - Sunday at the Cross Bones
The thing about a prize for funny books is you need a funny prize, in this case the winner receives a considerable quantity of bubbly, but also has a Gloucester Old Spot named after their winning book. An act ment to honour the legendary Empress of Blandings, the prized pig of PG Wodehouse’s fictional hero Clarence Emsworth.
