New Releases by Michael Frayn

El subito rastro inquietante y casi olvidado aroma de la alhena conduce a Stephen Wheatley a regresar al escenario de un verano de su ingancia que recuerda vagamente. En una tranquila calle da las afueras de Londres, mientras una lejana Segunda Guerra MUndial asola Europa, dos ninos, Stephen y Keith, se enrolan en un particular juego belico: espiar a los vecinos, anotar sus movimientos y desentranar sus secretos.

Why not program computers to take over the really dull jobs that human beings have to do - such as praying and behaving morally? At the William Morris Institute of Automation Research they are doing just that to free mankind for the really stimulating and demanding tasks of living today - first and foremost the impending visit of Her Majesty the Queen to open its new wing. . . Michael Frayn is the celebrated author of fifteen plays including Noises Off, Copenhagen and Afterlife. His bestselling novels include Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award and Skios, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Tin Men, his first novel, is now a modern classic. Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award it explores computers, technology and automation with customary humour and wit.

Written in a form of protagonist''s letters to his Australian friend, this novel is a subtle and psychologically exact depiction of the moral degradation of an ordinary man afflicted with envy.

The two old friends, both nuclear scientists, found themselves on opposite sides in a world war, and Heisenberg''s intentions on that visit, for good or for evil, have long intrigued and baffled historians and scientists.".

An explosive re-imagining of the mysterious wartime meeting between two Nobel laureates to discuss the atomic bomb.

Many of the essays collected in The Additional Michael Frayn first appeared in the Guardian and the Observer over a three decade span, from the 1970s to the 1990.

Who is Celia, and what are the mysterious papers found concealed under the attic floorboards of an old country house? Are they simply instructions for assembling a table-tennis table, written in idiosyncratic German, or could they contain a coded message?.

Théâtre avec quatre personnages: deux femmes, deux hommes

A collection of writings by novelist and playwright Michael Frayn, which are based on his column in the Guardian, covering the pomposities and inanities of public announcements, fashionable conversations and self-advertising of all kinds. From News at Ten on Hamlet to an extra chapter in the Book of Genesis describing the week after creation; from airline stewards'' briefings to a new opera, The Magic Mobile, in which Papageno tries frantically to phone home from the airport, Frayn displays a accurate ear for the ludicrous prose styles of modern life.

A Michael Frayn play in which a couple move into an empty room and begin to construct their life together. The responsibility is daunting, especially when they reflect that it has taken the whole of the history of the world to get them together in this particular place at this particular time.

This varied collection of short sketches and monologues by the author of NOISES OFF, BENEFACTORS and others is essential to any actor''s library. Most pieces are comic and all are perfect for classes and auditions. Contents: At the Sign of the Rupture Belt (2m, 1f) Blots (Monologue) Confession (Monologue) Do You Think You Are? (1m, 1f) Glycerine (1m, 1f) Head to Head (Monologue) Heaven (1m, 1f) Listen to This (1m, 1f) A Little Peace and Quiet (1m, 1f) The Messenger''

Michael Frayn''s farce "Noises Off" was about actors at work; this later work shows the other half of the great confrontation which constitutes live theatre - the audience. "Look Look" was first performed at the Aldwych Theatre, London, in April 1990.

Adaptation of Chekhov''s play known as Platonov or A Country Scandal. Romantic farce about fickle schoolmaster in 19th century Russia.