“michael frayn”

In gripping prose charged with emotional intensity, this national bestseller by the author of "Headlong" reaches into the moral confusion of two boys in wartime London to reveal a reality filled with deceptions and betrayals, where the bonds of friendship, marriage, and family are unraveled by cowar... More

Mankind, scientists agree, is a tiny and insignificant anomaly in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would it even be so vast, without the fact of our insignificance to give it scale? What would the universe... More

In this Booker Prize finalist, an unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of an elusive Old Master painting. "Finely wrought and comical . . . a perfect introduction to a writer who likes to pull the rug out from under your feet while offering you the most seductive of smiles".--... More

The Tony Award--winning play that soars at the intersection of science and art, Copenhagen" "is an explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb. In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a clandestine trip to Copenhagen to ... More

Alphabetical Order: "The best of Frayn's plays. He has found a way of writing broad comedy about ordinary and sympathetic people without resorting to artificial conflict or character distortion."-The Times Donkeys' Years: "Gorgeous farce, all the funnier for emerging from credible aspirations and n... More

Benefactors: "Frayn's most complex and interesting play."-Sunday Times Balmoral: "A sophisticated drollery, an educated amusement."-New Statesman Wild Honey, a reworking of Chekhov's first play: "A brilliant piece of theatre bearing the stigmata of genius."-Guardian "Michael Frayn has the rare abi... More

Four old friends sit down for a quiet evening together. But they are harassed by various bells, warblers, beepers and cheepers, all trying to warn them of something.... More