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Among Others: Friendships and Encounters by Michael Frayn
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Michael Frayn would like to say a brief word about a few of the friends who have shaped his life - 'before my memory goes'. Some have had a profound effect. Some, a small and passing one. Some, you may know yourself. Some you couldn't possibly know at all; and maybe nor did Michael (there are stories o ...Show more
Constructions by Michael Frayn
$27.00 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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 problems in philosophy and of everyday life.
Matchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments by Michael Frayn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
Matchbox Theatre presents a miniature sketch show: thirty dialogues and monologues by Michael Frayn, to be played in the smallest theatre in the world - the theatre of your own imagination. Sir Geoffrye and Lady Hilarye, sleeping peacefully on their marble tomb these last six hundred years, are woken b ...Show more
Matchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments by Michael Frayn
$24.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
Matchbox Theatre presents a sketch show in miniature: thirty short entertainments by Michael Frayn, author of Skios and Noises Off. "The funniest farce ever written." (New York Times). These tiny plays are offered here for performance in the smallest theatre in the world: the theatre of your own imagina ...Show more
My Father's Fortune : A Life by Michael Frayn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. In this book he sets out to rediscover that lost land before all trace of it finally disappears beyond recall. As he tries to see it through the eyes his parents and t ...Show more
My Father's Fortune: A Life by Michael Frayn
$39.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
'An unknown place.' This was what Michael Frayn's children called the shadowy landscape of the past from which their family had emerged. Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, My Father's Fortune sets out to rediscover that lost land before all trace of it finally disappears beyond recall. As Frayn trie ...Show more
Skios by Michael Frayn
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A story of mislaid indentity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences, from the master of farce. On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turn ...Show more
Spies by Michael Frayn
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith and Stephen live there is very little evidence of the Second World War. But the two friends suspect that the inhabitants of the Close are not what they seem. As Keith authoritatively informs the trusting Stephen, the whole district is riddled with secret passages and ...Show more
Spies by Michael Frayn
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 start to suspect all is not as it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery: the Germans have infiltrated his ...Show more