From the bestselling author of "Headlong "and "Spies," "an unconditional triumph" ("The Washington Post Book World)" For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty...more details Format:Paperback Pages:259
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571204342
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571225064
Set in a future where humanity is divided into two - the privileged 'insiders', and the outcast 'outsiders' - A Very Private Life is the story of Uncumber...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9781408108338
Afterlifeis Michael Frayn's first new play for the National Theatre since Democracy, which premiered at the National in 2003before West End and Broadway transfers. Investigating the life of the Austrian impresario and founder of the Salzburg Festival...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:112
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413732804
''Michael Frayn has the rare ability to construct farcical comedy around philosophical principles and the laughs and the ideas effortlessly intermesh' (Guardian) Four old friends sit down for a quiet evening together. But they are harassed by various bells...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9781408122600
Set in the library of a provincial newspaper where battle is joined between the forces of order and chaos, between arid organization in the person of the new library assistant...more details Format:Paperback Pages:86
One day during the run of Michael Fryan's play Copenhagen, a curious letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded pages of barely legible German which she thought might have some relevance to the mystery at the play's heart...more details Format:Paperback Pages:128
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571205301
One day during the run of Michael Fryan's play Copenhagen, a curious letter arrived from a housewife in Chiswick. She enclosed a few faded pages of barely legible German which she thought might have some relevance to the mystery at the play's heart...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:128
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413776488
One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns since 1959, principally for the "Guardian" and "Observer"...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413773715
'In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues...more details Format:Paperback Pages:163
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780385720793
The Tony Award--winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen" "is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413724908
'In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues...more details Format:Paperback Pages:116
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413773821
'Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571211098
"A brilliant exploration of character and conscience from the author of COPENHAGEN, set amid the tensions of 1960s Berlin" In "Democracy...more details Format:Paperback Pages:142
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413776228
'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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:100
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413171900
''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 miles in his life before...more details Format:Paperback Pages:112
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413592804
''One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds' (The Times) Alphabetical Order: 'A comic essay about two types of woman... a very intelligent comedy because of its classic simplicity...more details Format:Paperback Pages:560
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413660800
''One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds' (The Times) Benefactors conjures the world of the suburbs observed through the lens of post-imperialism; 'dazzling...more details Format:Paperback Pages:274
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413752307
'The new collection from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel Headlong and the internationally acclaimed play Copenhagen Here: ''about time...more details Format:Paperback Pages:341
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571283484
Release Date: 01 June 2012 A striking new repackaged edition of Michael Frayn's Booker shortlisted comedy thriller, set in the world of fine art....more details Format:Paperback Pages:400
An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master. Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner...more details Format:Paperback Pages:352
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571225583
Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, suddenly sees opening in front of him the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to perform a great public service...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:400
This varied collection of short sketches and monologues by the author of NOISES OFF, BENEFACTORS and others is essential to any actor's library. Most pieces are comic and all are perfect for classes and auditions.
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At the Sign of the Rupture Belt (2m...more details Format:Paperback Pages:72
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780805093773
For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny,"* turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:273
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9781609981532
Michael Frayn reveals the original exemplar of the extraordinary-ordinary life: his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, a roofing salesman with a winning smile and a racetrack vocabulary...more details Format:CD
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9781250002341
For the first time, novelist and playwright Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny," (Anthony Burgess) turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9781400031603
Noises Off," "the classic farce by the Tony Award--winning author of "Copenhagen, "is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780573619694
Farce / 5m, 4f / 2 Int. Called the funniest farce ever written, NOISES OFF returned to Broadway with Patti LuPone and Peter Gallagher and a manic menagerie that sent reviewers searching for new accolades as a cast of itinerant actors rehearsing a flop called NOTHING'S ON...more details Format:Paperback Pages:184
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413758507
'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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:174
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571212613
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:256
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780413700100
''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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:96
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571281428
Release Date: 01 June 2012 A story of mislaid identity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences, from the master of farce Michael Frayn....more details Format:Paperback Pages:224
Release Date: 01 June 2012 A story of mislaid identity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences, from the master of farce Michael Frayn....more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
This is a collection of writings by Michael Frayn, based on his column in "The Guardian," covering the pomposities and inanities of public announcements...more details Format:Paperback
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780312421175
The National Bestseller The sudden trace of a disturbing, forgotten aroma compels Stephen Wheatley to return to the site of a dimly remembered but troubling childhood summer in wartime London. As he pieces together his scattered memories...more details Format:Paperback Pages:272
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571212910
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live there is little evidence of World War II. But the two friends suspect that the inhabitants of the Close are not what they seem. As Keith informs his trusting friend...more details
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571212965
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite. But the two boys suspect that the comfortably ordinary houses in the Close and their inhabitants are not what they seem. As Keith...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9781405501392
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live, the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite...more details Format:Audio cassette
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571240555
Stage Directionscovers half a lifetime and the whole range of Frayn's theatrical writing, right up to a new piece about his latest play, Afterlife. It is also a reflection on his path into theatre: the 'doubtful beginnings' of his childhood...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571212712
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9781408101100
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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:79
Mankind, scientists agree, is a tiny and insignificant anomaly in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Without human beings there would be no words or language. Would there still be numbers...more details Format:Hardback Pages:704
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571232185
Mankind, scientists agree, is a tiny and insignificant anomaly in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Without human beings there would be no words or language. Would there still be numbers...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:704
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780805081480
What do we really know? What are we in relation to the world around us? Here, the acclaimed playwright and novelist takes on the great questions of his career--and of our lives Humankind...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:505
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780312426286
Humankind, scientists agree, is a tiny and insignificant anomaly in the vastness of the universe. But what would that universe look like if we were not here to say something about it? In this brilliant...more details Format:Paperback Pages:505
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571225057
'A love affair through an interpreter,' said Raya. 'That's a very cultured prospect.'Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571212668
Michael Frayn s first, and now classic novel, was the winner of the Somerset Maugham Award.Why not programme computers to take over the really dull jobs that human beings have to do...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780312421441
He knows everything about her before they meet: the make of pen she writes with, her exact height, the various honorary degrees she holds. He knows more about her nine novels and 27 short stories than she does herself. Naturally--he has devoted his life to studying and teaching them...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571204298
He knows everything about her before they meet; more about her nine novels than 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...more details Format:Paperback Pages:144
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571225576
Michael Frayn's classic is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:240
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Michael Frayn
ISBN:9780571204243
Michael Frayn's classic is set in the crossword and nature-notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street...more details Format:Paperback Pages:240
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Michael Frayn;Frederick Davidson
ISBN:9780786198399
Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his scrupulous art-historian wife find themselves enlisted to assess the value of three dusty paintings moldering in the freezing breakfast room...more details Format:CD
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ISBN:9780786118328
Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his scrupulous art-historian wife find themselves enlisted to assess the value of three dusty paintings moldering in the freezing breakfast room...more details Format:CD
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Michael Frayn;Martin Jarvis
ISBN:9780754094784
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live, the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bomb site. But the two boys suspect that the ordinary houses in the Close and their inhabitants are not what they seen. As Keith...more details Format:CD
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Michael Frayn;David Burke DavidBurke
ISBN:9780312421243
One day, during the British run of "Copenhagen," winner of the Tony Award for best play in 1999, Frayn was presented with a curious package from a London housewife that contained a few faded pages of barely legible German. These pages...more details Format:Paperback Pages:140
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Frayn Michael
ISBN:9780571240883
First published in 1974 and republished following the success of Frayn's masterly work of philosophy, "The Human Touch", "Constructions" is a dazzling...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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FRAYN MICHAEL
ISBN:9781408128626
Michael Frayn is one of the great playwrights of our time, enjoying international acclaim and prestige. This anthology contains three of his best dramas: Copenhagen...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:410
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Frayn Michael
ISBN:9780571270583
A delightful and uncommonly honest memoir of Michael Frayn's father and of his own childhood, written in the spirit of enquiry that so characterises one of our most distinguished and cherished authors...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Frayn Michael
ISBN:9780571240562
This charming and insightful collection of writings forms an essential commentary on Michael Frayn's life and work....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Frayn Michael
ISBN:9780571240890
All writers of fiction should be required by law to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real world in front of their eyes is from the invented world behind them. This is what Frayn did in mid-career...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Frayn Michael
ISBN:9780571240906
'All writers of fiction should be required, by law, to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real world in front of their eyes is from the invented world behind them.' This is what Frayn did in mid-career...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Frayn Michael
ISBN:9781405501385
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live, the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night and a single random bombsite...more details Format:CD-Audio