Book review: Comic bardolatry seems to be on the up

It strikes me that colder, darker days require more laughter than the brightness and warmth of most of the Cypriot year. Fortunately, as a side-effect of my decision that the complete works of PG Wodehouse would make excellent bedtime reading for my son, I discovered the existence of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, and with it the 2025 shortlist of reputedly the best comic literature of the year.

First up, Murder Most Foul by BAFTA award winning screenwriter Guy Jenkin, because...