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A Very Private Life by Michael Frayn
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Uncumber lives in a dystopian world where 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 prolonged life. Uncumber lives in this luxurious world and is told that she must nev ...Show more
My Father's Fortune : A Life by Michael Frayn
$28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'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
Skios by Michael Frayn
$36.99 NZD
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
Towards the End of the Morning by Michael Frayn
$22.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Michael Frayn's classic novel 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 at last arrives. Michael Frayn is t ...Show more
Travels with a Typewriter: A Reporter at Large by Michael Frayn
$28.99 NZD
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
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