Author of the Month: Michael Frayn
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Our Author of the Month for September is Michael Frayn, who celebrates his ninetieth birthday on the 8th. Across those nine decades he’s produced important work in almost every genre of literature, and is one of the very few authors in the shop perhaps equally famous as a novelist and a playwright. His great play Noises Off has been described by Lindsay Johns as ‘the funniest farce ever written’; among his fiction, a good place to start is his novel of journalism, Towards the End of the Morning.
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A unique memoir of a lifetime’s friendships – from one of Britain’s most beloved literary companions.It’s the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a brief…
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Headlong by Michael Frayn – shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and the Whitbread Novel Award – is a comic thriller set in the world of fine art, where a young philosophy lecturer risks his wealth and his sanity…
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Towards the End of Morning by Michael Frayn is a brilliantly comic drama about an ambitious journalist who works for an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street. With a new introduction by the…
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A fiction masterpiece from the author of Spies and Skios, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year AwardFor fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a…
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Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Skios, Michael Frayn’s most recent novel, is a story of mislaid identity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences.‘Good God, thought Oliver, as he saw the smile. She…
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Spies by Michael Frayn is the classic wartime coming of age novel from one of Britain’s best-loved writers.A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYIn the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the…
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Sweet Dreams by Michael Frayn is a wonderfully comic and satirical journey to the nerve-centre of the universe. With a new introduction by the author.Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12,000 furlongs high made…
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Set in Moscow in the political world of intrigue and suspicion of the late 1900s, The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn is an international comic drama that brilliantly captures life in the Soviet Union after the Second World…
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Tin Men is the first novel from Michael Frayn, the bestselling author of Spies, Skios and Headlong. It won the Somerset Maugham Award and examines technology, computers and automation with humour, elegance and…
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The Trick of It by Michael Frayn is a compelling drama, a vivid study of obsession and a playful account of life at the fringes of the creative world.He knows everything about her before they meet; more about her nine novels that…
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Now You Know by Michael Frayn is set in Westminster, in the political world of civil servants and pressure groups where the award-winning author of Spies, Skios and Headlong, plots one of his most celebrated…
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A Very Private Life by Michael Frayn follows a young girl as she ventures into a frightening dystopian world riven with inequality and division. With a new introduction by the author.Uncumber lives in a dystopian world where all…
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Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards in 2010, My Father’s Fortune, Michael Frayn’s searching and moving memoir, sets out to discover his family’s past.‘An unknown place.’ This was what Michael…
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Travels with a Typewriter: A Reporter at Large is a hugely entertaining collection of Michael Frayn’s travel writing from the sixties and seventies, including pieces on Germany, Cuba, Israel, Japan and Russia.In mid-career,…
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The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe is a fascinating search for an understanding of philosophy, cosmology, language and the big questions of life, from Michael Frayn, the award-winning author…
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A charming package of miniature comic masterpieces.A mobile phone is something that gives you the whole world at the touch of your finger – but this book is even better. Magic Mobile is a collection of thirty…
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'Michael Frayn's tremendous play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session' Sunday Times'A profound and haunting meditation on the mysteries of human…
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“As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits ... the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of reality.” The GuardianA…
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If we can just get through the play once tonight for doors and sardines. That's what it's all about. Doors and sardines.Getting on - getting off...that's farce. That's the theatre. That's life.Michael Frayn's irresistible,…
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