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A VOYAGE ROUND MY FATHER by MORTIMER JOHN
Category: Drama | Series: Oberon Modern Plays Ser.
There were days when the Father could see and days when the Father could not see in this tale seen through the eyes of the perennial Son as viewed from the trellis surrounded, as if for protection, by an enormous garden. The tale grows in turns and twists upon allusion and reversals, all crisply dramati ...Show more
A Voyage Round My Father by John Mortimer
Category: Fiction
In John Mortimer's most famous and highly autobiographical play, a young man looks back on an unconventional childhood and youth overshadowed by his irascible and eccentric father. Sent away to boarding school to be 'prepared for life', he finds teachers deranged by shell shock after the First World War ...Show more
Clinging to the Wreckage by John Mortimer
Category: Biography and Memoir
"Clinging to the Wreckage" is the first part of John Mortimer's acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battl ...Show more
Dunster by John Mortimer
Category: Fiction
Highly acclaimed novelist John Mortimer presents a novel of friends and enemies--for Philip Progmire, those two roles just happen to be filled by the same person.Dick Dunster and Philip Progmire have been friends since their days at school. They have also been adversaries. Progmire's thespian longings, ...Show more
Felix in the Underworld by John Mortimer
Category: Fiction
Felix Morsom has made a decent living as an author. Though his novels no longer hit the bestseller lists, he has been described as the Chekhov of Coldsands-on-Sea, and once was even shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Were it not for the delicious Brenda Bodkin, his publicist, and their endlessly unconsum ...Show more
Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories by Sir John Mortimer
Category: Fiction
Horace Rumpole lives alongside Sherlock Holmes, Pickwick and Jeeves as one of the immortal characters of English fiction. With his curmudgeonly wit, his literary allusions, his disdain for personal ambition and his lack of pomposity, he has, according to the "Daily Telegraph", 'ascended to the pantheon ...Show more
Forever Rumpole: The Best of the Rumpole Stories by Sir John Mortimer
Category: Humour
These are the very best of the Rumpole stories. Over thirty years John Mortimer wrote around eighty Rumpole stories, as well as four Rumpole novels, as the greatest of all fictional lawyers went from defending wife-murderers to defending hunt-saboteurs and alleged Islamic terrorists. "Forever Rumpole" c ...Show more
How We Fish - The New Book from the Fishing Brains Behind the Hit TV Series GONE FISHING, with a Foreword by Bob Mortimer by Bob Mortimer (Foreword by); Paul Whitehouse; John Bailey
Category: Fishing
Paul Whitehouse and fishing expert John Bailey celebrate the timeless joy of fishing.Paul Whitehouse and John Bailey have been devout fishermen for longer than they care to remember. A hobby, past time or sport - call it what you want - they have felt the pull of the water ever since they were kids and ...Show more
In Other Words by John Mortimer
Category: Biography Memoir
Collected and published for the first time, "In Other Words" is a book of verse, anecdotes and memories from Britain's best-loved raconteur based on his long-running one-man charity show, Mortimer's Miscellany. These are the stories with which John Mortimer, QC, has been entertaining the nation for year ...Show more
Mortimer / Quite Honestly (Audio CD) by Sir John Mortimer
Category: Audio Books
A hilarious crime novel by bestselling Rumpole author John Mortimer. Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. She's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences and the offer of a job in advertising. With all this, she felt she should 'pay back her debt to society' and 'do a little good in th ...Show more
Murderers and Other Friends : Another Part of Life by John Clifford Mortimer
Category: Fiction
Paradise Postponed by John Mortimer
Category: Fiction
When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in very different ways. Henry, novelist and former 'angry young man' turned grumpy old reactionary, decides to fight the will an ...Show more