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Author: Harry MortimerBinding: HardbackPublished: Alphabooks, 1981Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Wear and tearPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsOn Brass presents a comprehensive guide to the world of brass instruments, drawing upon the unparalleled expertise of...

It is the dawn of New Labour in the Hartscombe constituency. Ennobled and embittered, Lord Titmuss fondly remembers his days with Thatcher, and sees in the mobile phone-toting New Labour...

Ultraliberal clergyman Simeon Simcox, rector of the village of Rapstone Fanner, leaves his entire fortune to Leslie Titmuss, a social-climbing conservative politician. As Mortimer recounts the gossip and dastardly goings-on...

Will I fall? asked the snowflake. Yes, but you will cover the world in soft, white wonder. Will I fall? asked the raindrop. Yes, but you will fill streams and...

'Ironic and elegant ... a panoramic human comedy of life in our times' Evening Standard When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but...

Following the bestselling "Summer of a Dormouse", Sir John Mortimer - playwright, novelist, octogenarian and erstwhile QC - offers up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. What would...

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The book titled Character Parts by the author Sir John Mortimer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER CHOSEN BY WATERSTONES AS ONE OF THEIR BEST CRIME & THRILLER BOOKS OF 2024 'As a comedian, Bob Mortimer spins a shaggy-dog story like...

ASBOs may be the pride and joy of New Labour, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole - he takes the old-fashioned view that if anyone is going...

Clinging to the Wreckage is the first and most celebrated volume of John Mortimer's memoirs. It recounts with great wit and style his peculier childhood in the Chilterns - the...

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With a cast of characters that rivals anything in his famous Rumpole stories and a compulsive plot, Quite Honestly is a wonderfully comic novel, packed with John Mortimer's entertaining reflections...

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Author: John MortimerBinding: HardbackPublisher: ALLEN LANE, 1983Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Very goodPages: Good Markings: Previous ownerJohn Mortimer's In Character presents a collection of insightful and often humorous interviews with prominent...

Author: John MortimerBinding: HardbackPublished: ALLEN LANE, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsThis collection presents a series of incisive portraits, offering a keen examination of human nature...

John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders sees our eponymous hero tackle his first ever case. It is just after the war and two RAF heroes are found shot...

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The book titled Charade by the author Sir John Mortimer. This is a secondhand book. Please contact us for more information about this title.

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Hello, I'm Martha Grimstone, sometimes known as the Magnificent Lady of the Upside-down Writing Act. When I'm not in the mulberry tree, I live with my family in a broken...

The most magical gift for anyone who loves the wizarding world! A stunning, interactive collector's set featuring the first three books in J.K. Rowling's spellbinding Harry Potter series, designed and...

Author: Peter Moir FotheringhamBinding: HardbackPublished: St. Martin's Press, 1995Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: GoodMarkings: No markingsThis compelling historical fiction, The Destroying Of Harry Blyne, chronicles the tumultuous life of its...

Author: Gavin Mortimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 448 Aristocrat, gambler, innovator and special forces legend, the life of David Stirling should need no retelling. His formation of the Special...

Quite Honestly - a hilarious crime novel by bestselling Rumpole author John Mortimer Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. She's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences...

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One day John Mortimer is checking a reference in his "Complete Shakespeare" when the page falls open in the middle of "Henry VI, Part II" and his eye catches hold...

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New to Penguin Modern Classics, the very first selection of stories featuring the irrepressible Rumpole Horace Rumpole, the old boy committed to defending the apparently indefensible, trusting of a jury,...

A man climbs into Ferdinand Sponer's cab, gives the name of a hotel, and before he reaches it has been murdered: shot through the throat. And though Sponer has so...

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How did the introduction of the button change medieval life? If you found yourself in Elizabethan England, should you kiss your hostess on the lips? Why were pistols safer than...

Author: John MortimerBinding: HardbackPublished: ALLEN LANE, 1983Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Worn/faded, no tearsPages: Good, price clippedMarkings: No markingsJohn Mortimer's In Character presents a collection of insightful and often humorous interviews with prominent...

Author: John MortimerBinding: HardbackPublished: The Folio Society, 1998Condition:Book: GoodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodMarkings: Previous ownerCondition remarks: Yellowed spine. Clean text. Rumpole presents the captivating world of a curmudgeonly Old Bailey barrister,...

Author: Gavin Mortimer Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 208 'We will overcome it [and] I hope in the years to come, everyone will be able to take pride in how...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Slipcase: WornPages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Foxed spine. A beloved classic of British legal fiction, Rumpole chronicles the adventures of Horace Rumpole, a rumpled, claret-loving...