Rumpole: Selected and Introduced by the Author

Out of Print

Sir John Mortimer was a playwright, novelist and former practising barrister. During the war he worked with the Crown Film Unit and published a number of novels, before turning to theatre.

He wrote many film scripts, and plays both for radio and television, including A Voyage Round My Father, the Rumpole plays, which won him the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited.

Contains:-

• Introduction by John Mortimer
• Rumpole and the Younger Generation
• Rumpole and the Showfolk
• Rumpole and the Old Boy Net
• Rumpole and the Bright Seraphim
• Rumpole and the Tap End
• Rumpole and the Bubble Reputation
• Rumpole a la Carte
• Rumpole and the Children of the Devil
• Rumpole and the Family Pride
• Rumpole on Trial