This year’s Wodehouse prize winners are on the money – a judge’s view

The Everyman Wodehouse prize has to produce belly-laughs by the barrowload – which is why Hannah Rothschild and Paul Murray both deserved to win

Anyone can tell a joke, more or less, so any decent writer can produce a funny scene. Maybe a sparkling one-liner. But it’s not easy to do it again and again, and even harder to craft a novel that can genuinely be described as funny.

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