Martin Clay, a would-be art historian, believes he has discovered a missing masterpiece. The owner of the painting is oblivious to its potential and asks Martin to help him sell ...

Good God, thought Oliver, as he saw the smile. She thinks I'm him! And all at once he knew it was so. He was Dr Norman Wilfred.

On the ...

‘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 ...

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 ...

A hugely entertaining collection of Michael Frayn’s travel writing from the sixties and seventies, including pieces on Germany, Cuba, Israel, Japan and Russia.

In mid-career, Frayn took up his ...

‘I began my professional career in the theatre very late. What held me up was early failure ...’

Collected here for the first time, the essays Michael Frayn has written about ...

By our inmost nature we are readers, and what we read is not just words and symbols but the world around us. We have to - our very existence depends upon ...

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 ...

Uncumber lives at a time in the distant future when all humanty is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. The Insiders are privileged, with their every need catered ...

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, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of ...

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 ...

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, and Heaven ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...