Each sketch reveals the author's infectious delight in writing between the lines of theatre, fiction and comedy.Charmingly packaged and published with flair, Pocket Playhouse is the perfect gift for a
The Russian Interpreter is a story about Raya, a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who speak
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
“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 real
Bit of a wide boy, Terry. Only one person finds it easy to resist his charm and counter his arguments and that's Hilary - one of the serious and dedicated young Civil Servants working in the Home
He has devoted his life to studying and teaching them, even though he is four times as clever as she is. Now, as she steps off the train, arriving to do a lecture for his students, something about her
Designed to meet the requirements for students at IGCSE and A level, this guide offers detailed analyses of character, setting and theme; close examination of the novel's plot, structure and narrative
His bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award and Skios, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
Uncumber lives in a dystopian world where all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. Michael Frayn is the award-winning author of Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Booker
Set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life - until
“Expertly written, genuine fun...Frayn builds his puzzle so painstakingly and tells his story so engagingly, you want to jump in his lap and build a nest.”—Alex Witchel, The New York Times Book Review
And as the time draws ever nearer for one or other Dr Wilfred - or possibly both - to give the eagerly awaited lecture, so Skios - Greece - Europe - career off their appointed track.
Winner of the PEckerley PrizeAward-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn "makes the family memoir his own" (The Daily Telegraph) as he tells the story of his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad
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.
For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny" (Anthony Burgess), turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story to re-create the world that made him who h
Michael Frayn: A deeply sophisticated dramatist...the range and brilliance of his writing have been phenomenal...His work in the theatre has a very particular profile; elegant, precise, meticulous, wi
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.
In Noises Off Michael Frayn creates an ingenious play-within-a-play farce. The on-stage play is a dreadful bedroom farce called Noises On in which scantily clad young ladies are being chased in and ou
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 batt
Stage Directions covers 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: t
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 explore
Two lovers - a playwright and his leading lady - escape to a discreet and charming Parisian hotel straight out of Feydeau - but conjured by the playwright (to make it even more discreet) from the emp
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 brillia
The author of award winning novels (such as Spies), plays (Copenhagen and Noises Off) and films (Clockwise) here produces his first work of non-fiction, one which explores all of the ideas behind his
The author of award winning novels (such as Spies), plays (Copenhagen and Noises Off) and films (Clockwise) here produces his first work of non-fiction, one which explores all of the ideas behind his
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 fro
Noises Off, the classic farce by the Tony Award-winning author of Copenhagen, is not one play but two: simultaneously a traditional sex farce, Nothing On, and the back-stage "drama" that develops duri
The new collection from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel Headlong and the internationally acclaimed play CopenhagenHere: "about time, space and life…A touching, brilliant constructi
An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master.Invited to dinner by the boorish local landowner, Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his art-hi
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, and they had revolutionised atom
"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, and unusual i
Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12,000 furlongs high made of 'pure gold, like unto clear glass'. His bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Man B
Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize Headlong begins when Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece.
Michael Frayn's 'gorgeous farce' about a university reunionpremiered thirty years ago at the Globe Theatre, London. Returning tothe West End in a sparkling new production, it remains a classiccomedy.
The National BestsellerThe 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 p
Copenhagen is a reimagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen t
Four old friends sit down for a quiet evening together. But they are harassed by various bells, sirens, buzzers, warblers, beepers and cheepers, all trying to warn them of something. What are these el
