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The tin men

MICHAEL FRAYN

Fontana

The Russian Interpreter

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Penguin Books, Ltd.

'Once upon a time there will be a little girl called Uncumber . . .'  Uncumber lives in the distant future, in a world sharply divided between 'Insiders' and 'Outsiders'. The Insiders lead a privileged existence: never having to leave their homes, they enjoy a vastly prolonged lifespan, a regular supply of food and mind-altering drugs, and holographic entertainment at the push of a button. Meanwhile, the Outsiders, half-savage, inhabit a polluted wilderness of ruins and industrial waste, struggling for survival.  Uncumber has been warned never to go outside. But when she meets an Outsider on the Holovision and falls in love with him, she becomes curious and decides to venture out into the world ...  Equal parts dystopian science fiction and brilliant social satire, Michael Frayn's eerily prescient fourth novel A Very Private Life (1968) earned widespread critical acclaim and comparisons to Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. This edition features a new introduction by the author.  'A weird and frightening intensity.' - Time  'Easily the most original thing Frayn has done ... written with elegant simplicity.' - New Statesman  'An ingenious fable ... at times poetically imaginative.' - Sunday Times  'An intriguing fantasy.' - Sunday Telegraph

A Very Private Life

A civil servant in the Cabinet Office, Brian Jessel, is asked to reopen the case of a predecessor who died in the 1970s, apparently by suicide. As he investigates the case he discovers what really happened - and the reader learns about Brian's own troubled life. By the author of "The Trick of It".

A Landing on the Sun

Now You Know

In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world had changed, and the two men were on opposite sides in a world war. The meeting was fraught with danger and embarrassment, and ended in disaster.
Why the German physicist Heisenberg went to Copenhagen in 1942 and what he wanted to say to the Danish physicist Bohr are questions which have exercised historians of nuclear physics ever since. In Michael Frayn's new play Heisenberg meets Bohr and his wife Margrethe once again to look for the answers, and to work out, just as they had once worked out the internal functioning of the atom, how we can ever know why we do what we do.
'Michael Frayn's tremendous new play is a piece of history, an intellectual thriller, a psychological investigation and a moral tribunal in full session.' Sunday Times

Copenhagen

Dramas & Plays

Methuen Drama

Adventure, Travel, Tourism, Transportation, Railroad

Great railway journeys of the world

Travel

Food, Lodging & Transportation

Crown Publications

SPIES

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 two boys suspect that the comfortably ordinary houses in the Close and their inhabitants are not what they seem. As Keith, the leader in all their enterprises,

Spies

Faber and Faber

Terry is a bit of a wide-boy, but also an activist running a small team dedicated to more open government. He is energetic, powerful, not entirely scrupulous - but he is also charming and entertaining. Around him he has collected a group of admiring helpers. By the author of "The Trick of It".

History

Europe

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The tin men

The Russian Interpreter

A Very Private Life

A Landing on the Sun

Now You Know

A Landing on the Sun

Copenhagen

Great railway journeys of the world

Spies

Now You Know