Sir John Mortimer (406 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is a collection of interviews the author has conducted with famous men and women including Christine Keller, Lauren Bacall, Neil Kinnock, Andre Previn and Lord Scraman.

Paperback. Condition: Good. The lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, Wordsworth-spouting criminal lawyer returns to the fray to fight new battles against injustice. Stories such as "Rumpole and the Younger Generation" and "Rumpole and the Showfolk" are included. Rumpole is featured in an ITV series.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, Wordsworth-spouting criminal lawyer returns to the fray to fight new battles against injustice. Stories such as "Rumpole and the Younger Generation" and "Rumpole and the Showfolk" are included. Rumpole is featured in an ITV series.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, Wordsworth-spouting criminal lawyer returns to the fray to fight new battles against injustice. Stories such as "Rumpole and the Younger Generation" and "Rumpole and the Showfolk" are included. Rumpole is featured in an ITV series.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. We last left Rumpole in his hospital bed after his sudden collapse in court. Now our hero finds himself in the Primrose Path nursing home - or a hospice as he persists in describing it. Things aren't looking good for Rumpole - until suddenly he begins to sense there's something wrong with the place, and all his intelligence and formidable insight into human behaviour come to the fore again. And once he has solved the mystery of the Primrose Path nursing home, Rumpole finds the briefs fly thick and fast again. Six brand-new Rumpole stories showing the legendary advocate on top form.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Horace Rumpole - a man who never prosecutes, whose fame rests on his knowledge, whose court scenes are proverbial and whose home is ruled by Mrs Rumpole is back in this collection of stories.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Recounts a full year in author's life, which includes working on films, raising Lottery money for the Royal Court, chairing the committee that decides on the Trafalgar Square statue, having lunch with old lags in prison, and harrying New Labour.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Recounts a full year in author's life, which includes working on films, raising Lottery money for the Royal Court, chairing the committee that decides on the Trafalgar Square statue, having lunch with old lags in prison, and harrying New Labour.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A woman takes her husband and children to the Italian home of another English family accompanied by her eccentric father. A sense of foreboding hangs over the holiday from the start as the house, as well as its absentee owners, exert their presence.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A woman takes her husband and children to the Italian home of another English family accompanied by her eccentric father. A sense of foreboding hangs over the holiday from the start as the house, as well as its absentee owners, exert their presence.

Paperback. Condition: Good. A collection of six tales all featuring Horace Rumpole. Characters such as She Who Must Be Obeyed, and the philandering Claude Erskine-Brown are back as Rumpole visits a snooty restaurant, where he enagages in a battle over mashed spuds and takes the unaccustomed role of prosecutor.…

Paperback. Condition: Fair. A second volume of autobiography following on from "Clinging to the Wreckage". Extending the story, Mortimer tells of his court work and his breakthrough to fame with Rumpole and "Brideshead". Portraits of Tony Hillerman, David Niven, John Geilgud, Harold Wilson and others are included.…

Paperback. Condition: Good. A second volume of autobiography following on from "Clinging to the Wreckage". Extending the story, Mortimer tells of his court work and his breakthrough to fame with Rumpole and "Brideshead". Portraits of Tony Hillerman, David Niven, John Geilgud, Harold Wilson and others are included.…

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. The author of Paradise Postponed brings his many fans a magical combination of social comedy, social commentary, and intriguing mystery when Molly Pargeter and her family rent a villa in Tuscany for the summer. As Molly becomes obsessed with the owners' lives, strange events occur.…

Hardback. Condition: Fair. The author of Paradise Postponed brings his many fans a magical combination of social comedy, social commentary, and intriguing mystery when Molly Pargeter and her family rent a villa in Tuscany for the summer. As Molly becomes obsessed with the owners' lives, strange events occur.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. The author of Paradise Postponed brings his many fans a magical combination of social comedy, social commentary, and intriguing mystery when Molly Pargeter and her family rent a villa in Tuscany for the summer. As Molly becomes obsessed with the owners' lives, strange events occur.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. 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 we like to leave to our descendants? Not a third-rate painting or our PEPS, according to Sir John, but a love of Shakespeare, a taste for alcohol, the ability to defeat boredom, the importance of never locking the lavatory door, and so on. Owing something to Montaigne's essays, something to Wilde's aphorisms and something to Yeats' poem for his daughter, "Where There's a Will" offers plenty of advice from one who has seen it all.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. This is a collection of interviews the author has conducted with famous men and women including Christine Keller, Lauren Bacall, Neil Kinnock, Andre Previn and Lord Scraman.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Why does Simeon Simcox, the CND-marching Rector of Rapstone Fanner, leave his fortune not to his two sons but to an odious Tory Minister? This novel is a portrait of English life from 1945 to the present.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. Why does Simeon Simcox, the CND-marching Rector of Rapstone Fanner, leave his fortune not to his two sons but to an odious Tory Minister? This novel is a portrait of English life from 1945 to the present.

Hardback. Condition: Good. 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 to be threatened with a restriction of their liberty then some form of legal proceeding ought to be gone through first. Not that Hilda agrees, of course, but she's too busy completing her memoirs to dissuade him from taking an interest when one of the Timson children is given an ASBO for playing football in the street. And pretty soon he realizes something fishy is going on. Why are the residents pursuing their vendetta against the Timson boy quite so strongly? Could they have a sinister reason for not wanting him on their street? John Mortimer's delightful new Rumpole novel sees the magician of the Old Bailey, and Pommeroy's Wine Bar, at his implacable best as he defends our ancient freedoms, even as he remains uneasy about what it is exactly Hilda is writing. …

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. 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 to be threatened with a restriction of their liberty then some form of legal proceeding ought to be gone through first. Not that Hilda agrees, of course, but she's too busy completing her memoirs to dissuade him from taking an interest when one of the Timson children is given an ASBO for playing football in the street. And pretty soon he realizes something fishy is going on. Why are the residents pursuing their vendetta against the Timson boy quite so strongly? Could they have a sinister reason for not wanting him on their street? John Mortimer's delightful new Rumpole novel sees the magician of the Old Bailey, and Pommeroy's Wine Bar, at his implacable best as he defends our ancient freedoms, even as he remains uneasy about what it is exactly Hilda is writing.…

Hardback. Condition: Good. John Mortimer's eighth volume of Rumpole stories, in which the author serves up another portion of Britain's much-loved Barrister-at-Law with relish, wit and a beady eye on the system of British Justice.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. John Mortimer's eighth volume of Rumpole stories, in which the author serves up another portion of Britain's much-loved Barrister-at-Law with relish, wit and a beady eye on the system of British Justice.

Hardback. Condition: Very Good. John Mortimer's eighth volume of Rumpole stories, in which the author serves up another portion of Britain's much-loved Barrister-at-Law with relish, wit and a beady eye on the system of British Justice.

Hardback. Condition: Fair. A literary novel from the author of FELIX IN THE UNDERWORLD, TITMUSS REGAINED and THE SOUND OF TRUMPETS.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. The lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, Wordsworth-spouting criminal lawyer returns to the fray to fight new battles against injustice. Stories such as "Rumpole and the Younger Generation" and "Rumpole and the Showfolk" are included. Rumpole is featured in an ITV series.…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, Wordsworth-spouting criminal lawyer returns to the fray to fight new battles against injustice. Stories such as "Rumpole and the Younger Generation" and "Rumpole and the Showfolk" are included. Rumpole is featured in an ITV series.…