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Skios
Faber and Faber 2012; US$ 11.65On 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 turns out to be surprisingly young and charming -- not at all the intimidating figure they had been expecting. The Foundation's guests are soon eating out of... more...
Noises Off
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00Noises 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 backstage ?drama? that develops during Nothing On ?s final rehearsal and tour. The two begin to interlock as the characters make their exits from Nothing On only to find themselves... more...
Copenhagen
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00The Tony Award?winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart and friend Niels Bohr.... more...
My Father's Fortune
Henry Holt and Co. 2011; US$ 15.99For the first time, Michael Frayn, the "master of what is seriously funny,"* turns his humor and narrative genius on his own family's story, to re-create the world that made him who he is Whether he is deliriously funny or philosophically profound, as a novelist and a playwright Michael Frayn has concerned himself with the ordinary life lived... more...
The Russian Interpreter
Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 10.19"A love affair through an interpreter,' said Raya. 'That's a very cultured prospect.' Raya is a mercurial Moscow blonde who speaks no English, and the affair she is embarking upon is with Gordon Proctor-Gould, a visiting British businessman who speaks no Russian. They need an interpreter; which is how Paul Manning is diverted from writing his thesis... more...
A Landing on the Sun
Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 11.65Ever 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. Now, as a television company reinvestigates the case, the Cabinet Office feels it may be prudent to make a reassessment of its own, in case of any sudden alarm... more...
Towards the End of the Morning
Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 11.65"A sublimely funny comedy about the way newspapers try to put lives into words.' Spectator 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 fame and the gentlemanly life - until one day his great chance of glory... more...
A Very Private Life
Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 10.19"An intriguing fantasy.' Sunday Telegraph Uncumber lives at a time in the distant future when all humanity is divided in two - the Insiders and the Outsiders. The Insiders are privileged, with their every need catered to by somatic drugs, three-dimensional holovision and a prolonged life. Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is told that she... more...
Headlong
Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 11.65'A knife-edge thriller/farce about a missing Bruegel masterpiece and its rightful custodians.' Independent Martin Clay, a young would-be art historian, suddenly sees opening in front of him the chance of a lifetime: the opportunity to perform a great public service, and at the same time to make his professional reputation - perhaps even rather a... more...
The Tin Men
Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 10.19'Dazzlingly funny.' Observer Why not programme computers to take over the really dull jobs that human beings have to do - such as praying and behaving morally? At the William Morris Institute of Automaton Research they are doing just that to free mankind for the really stimulating and demanding tasks of living today - first and foremost the impending... more...









