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Collected Columns

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(4 reviews)

One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns since 1959, principally for the "Guardian" and "Observer", and originally came to prominence as the thrice weekly... See More

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Education & Reference

Towards the End of the Morning

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(663 reviews)

Michael Frayn's classic novel is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, John Dyson, a mid-level editor, dreams wistfully of fame and the... See More

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British & Irish

Noises Off (Modern Plays)

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(274 reviews)

Noises Off is not one play but two - simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the backstage farce that develops during Nothing On's final rehearsal and tour. The two farces begin to interlock, as the... See More

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History

The Russian Interpreter

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(63 reviews)

'A love affair through an interpreter,' said Raya. 'That's a very cultured prospect.' Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon is with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting... See More

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Contemporary Fiction

The Trick of It

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(38 reviews)

He knows everything about her before they meet; more about her nine novels that she does herself. He has devoted his life to studying and teaching them and yet he is four times as clever as she is. Now, as she steps off the... See More

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Poetry & Drama

The Sneeze (Modern Plays)

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(2 reviews)

Comprising four one-act comic vaudevilles and four short stories adapted for the stage by Michael Frayn, The Sneeze introduces readers to a less familiar selection of work by one of the greatest precursors of modern... See More

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Contemporary Fiction

A Very Private Life

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(46 reviews)

'Easily the most original thing Frayn has done... written with elegant simplicity.' New Statesman Uncumber lives at a time in the distant future when all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. The... See More

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Contemporary Fiction

The Tin Men

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(96 reviews)

Why not programme computers to take over the really dull jobs that human beings have to do - such as praying and behaving morally? At the William Morris Institute of Automaton Research they are doing just that to free... See More

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British & Irish

Alphabetical Order (Modern Plays)

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(6 reviews)

Winner of the Evening Standard Best Comedy Award after its long run at the Hampstead Theatre and on the West End in 1975, Alphabetical Order is set in the library of a provincial newspaper where battle is joined between the... See More

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Politics & Social Sciences

Constructions

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(5 reviews)

First published in 1974 and republished following the success of Frayn's masterly work of philosophy, The Human Touch, Constructions is a dazzling, thought-provoking and fascinating book which explores some of the great... See More

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British & Irish

The Crimson Hotel and Audience (Modern Plays)

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(2 reviews)

In this absurdist comedy two lovers - a playwright and his lead actress - escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel, conjured from a desert landscape. As the walls, door and crimson curtains of Room 322 materialise... See More

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Travel & Tourism

Travels with a Typewriter: A Reporter at Large

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(10 reviews)

In mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the Observer about some of the places in the world that interested him. He wanted to describe 'not the... See More

£6.11 Price verified 17 hours ago
Religious & Inspirational Fiction

Sweet Dreams

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(27 reviews)

Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12,000 furlongs high made of 'pure gold, like unto clear glass'. That was 1,900 years ago, and Heaven today has changed out of all recognition. So discovers Howard... See More

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Biography & True Accounts

Among Others: Friendships and Encounters

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(101 reviews)

It's the other people around you, says Michael Frayn, who make you what you are. So he would like to say a brief word, looking back on life from his ninetieth year, about a few of the people who have formed his own... See More

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Contemporary Fiction

Headlong

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(425 reviews)

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks... See More

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History

Now You Know

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(10 reviews)

Bit of a wide boy, Terry. Got a spot of form, eye for the ladies, a real rough diamond some might say. Not without his virtues, though, as his campaign for open government shows. No secrets, that's Terry's secret. Allied to... See More

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Poetry & Drama

First & Last (Modern Plays)

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(3 reviews)

"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) One spring morning a quiet, shy man in his sixties sets out from Land's End to walk the length of his native land. He has never walked more than a dozen... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Donkeys' Years (Modern Plays)

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Michael Frayn's 'gorgeous farce' about a university reunion premiered thirty years ago at the Globe Theatre, London. Returning to the West End in a sparkling new production, it remains a classic comedy. Twenty years after... See More

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British & Irish

Now You Know: Play (Modern Plays)

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(2 reviews)

"One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Now You Know: "Frayn's light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity and investigative purpose" (Observer) See More

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Crime, Thriller & Mystery

A Landing on the Sun

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(105 reviews)

Ever since an obscure Civil Servant called Stephen Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, rumours have circulated about a connection with some secret defence project. Now, as a television company... See More

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Poetry & Drama

Democracy (Modern Plays)

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(6 reviews)

Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breaking them. All looking round... See More

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Literary Fiction

Skios

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(913 reviews)

Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 'Good God, thought Oliver, as he saw the smile. She thinks I'm him! And all at once he knew it was so. He was Dr Norman Wilfred.' On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler... See More

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British & Irish

Afterlife (Modern Plays)

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(2 reviews)

Afterlife is Michael Frayn's first new play for the National Theatre since Democracy, which premiered at the National in 2003 before West End and Broadway transfers. Afterlife opens in the NT Lyttelton in June... See More

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British & Irish

Copenhagen (Student Editions)

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(257 reviews)

'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... See More

£9.34 Price verified one day ago
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