To understand Ireland, you have to understand the GAA. To understand the GAA, you have to read this book. A masterpiece.

An extraordinary saga - unflinching in its honesty. This book is to hurling what Eamon Dunphy's seminal Only a Game? was to soccer writing

This is one of the best sports that has been written in Ireland. You'll cry a lot, if you have a soul. And if you love sport, you'll love this book.

Deserves its place among the most courageous Irish sports books ever conceived, and one of the finest ever written

Compulsory reading for anyone who has a pig, an aunt - or a sense of humour!

I've recorded all the Jeeves books, and I can tell you this: it's like singing Mozart. The perfection of the phrasing is a physical pleasure. I doubt if any writer in the English language has more perfect music

P.G. Wodehouse is the gold standard of English wit

For as long as I'm immersed in a P.G. Wodehouse book, it's possible to keep the real world at bay and live in a far, far nicer, funnier one where happy endings are the order of the day

Not only the funniest English novelist who ever wrote but one of our finest stylists

It's dangerous to use the word genius to describe a writer, but I'll risk it with him

Wodehouse always lifts your spirits, no matter how high they happen to be already

The greatest comic writer ever

To pick up a Wodehouse novel is to find oneself in the presence of genius - no writer has ever given me so much pure enjoyment

P.G. Wodehouse remains the greatest chronicler of a certain kind of Englishness, that no one else has ever captured quite so sharply, or with quite as much wit and affection

The Wodehouse wit should be registered at Police HQ as a chemical weapon

My only problem with Wodehouse is deciding which of his enchanting books to take to my desert island

P.G. Wodehouse should be prescribed to treat depression. Cheaper, more effective than valium and far, far more addictive

Quite simply, the master of comic writing at work

I constantly find myself drooling with admiration at the sublime way Wodehouse plays with the English language

Wodehouse was quite simply the Bee's Knees. And then some

Wodehouse is so utterly, properly, simply funny

To dive into a Wodehouse novel is to swim in some of the most elegantly turned phrases in the English language

A genius ... Elusive, delicate but lasting

You don't analyse such sunlit perfection, you just bask in its warmth and splendour