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Stage Directions: Writing on Drama, 1970-2008 by Michael Frayn
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Stage Directions: Writing on Theatre, 1970-2008 by Michael Frayn
$27.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
"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 theater: the 'doubtful beginnings' of his childhood, his subsequent scorn as a young man and, surprisingly lat ...Show more
The Human Touch : Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn
$29.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
What would the universe be like if human beings were not here to observe it? Would there still be numbers, or scientific laws? Would the universe even be vast, without our tininess to give it scale? The author of award-winning novels (such as "Spies"), plays ("Copenhagen" and "Noises Off") and films ("C ...Show more
The Human Touch: Our part in the creation of a universe by Michael Frayn
$59.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: good
'Imaginative, funny and dazzlingly clever.' John Carey, Sunday Times 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? Would it even be so vast, without the fact ...Show more
The Russian Interpreter by Michael Frayn
$21.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When a mercurial Moscow blonde and a visiting British businessman conduct an affair through their Russian interpreter it reveals all the deceptions of love and East-West relations.
Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This tale is set in the crossword and nature-notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street.
Travels with a Typewriter: A Reporter at Large by Michael Frayn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Travel
'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, when he took up his old trade, journalism, and w ...Show more
Travels with a Typewriter: A Reporter at Large by Michael Frayn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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 extraordinary but the ordinary, the typical, the everyday', and his accounts became the s ...Show more