New Releases by Michael Frayn

From the bestselling author of Headlong and Spies, "an unconditional triumph" (The Washington Post Book World) For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, there have been rumors. So Brian Jessel, a young member of the Cabinet Office, is diverted from his routine work and asked to prepare an internal report. Slowly, from the archives in the Cabinet Office Registry, Jessel begins to reconstruct Summerchild''s last months. It begins to emerge that, at a time when America had just put men on the moon, the British were involved in an even bolder project, and that Summerchild was investigating a phenomenon as common as sunlight, but as powerful and dangerous as any of the forces that modern science has known. The secret world into which Brian Jessel stumbles turns out to be even more extraordinary than his department had feared.

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.

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.".

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

Author and playwright Michael Frayn was lauded as one of the funniest newspaper columnists of his generation.

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 sophisticated drollery, an educated amusement.--New Statesman

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''