One of the funniest writers of his generation, Michael Frayn has been writing humorous newspaper columns since 1959, principally for the Guardian and Observer . This volume brings together 110…

Published to coincide with the world premiere at the National Theatre in June 2008, Afterlife is Michael Frayn’s grand, theatrical new play about the life of Max Reinhardt, founder of…

Ever 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.

This play opens with a touring company dress-rehearsing Nothing On , a conventional farce. Mixing mockery and homage, Frayn heaps into this play a stock of characters and situation

Owen Shorter, professional journalist, and Mara Hill, well known lady novelist, discover at the beginning of the play that they have been sent to Cuba to write for rival colour…

In a spiraling farce about upright academics, gilded captains of industry, ambitious climbers, and dotty philanthropists, Frayn tells a story of personal and professional disintegration as he delivers readers to…

‘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…

Heaven, reported St John in Revelation, was a cubical city 12,000 furlongs high made of ‘pure gold, like unto clear glass’. His bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for…