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PaperbackEngels9781840022773
1-9-2004
A collection of plays from the creator of Rumpole QC, hero of the Rumpole of the Bailey television series. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141019543
3-7-2008
A biography of John Mortimer revealing various aspects of Mortimer's legal and literary career, from his first attempts at writing novels and the early help he offered his barrister father through to the triumphs of Rumpole and the Oz trial. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140063837
24-2-1983
Recounting his solitary childhood in the English countryside, the author presents affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780140067682
29-9-1983
An omnibus that celebrates Horace Rumpole's legal triumphs, plundering sorties into the "Oxford Book of English Verse" and less-than-salubrious hat. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141198293
4-4-2013
Features twenty classic tales of Horace Rumpole in which he battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk or mocking the pomposity of his own profession, all the while being held in check by his wife, Hilda: the wonderful, fearsome. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141020907
4-5-2006
Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. She's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences and the offer of a job in advertising. With all this, she felt she should 'pay back her debt to society' and 'do a little good in the world'. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141034874
7-2-2008
It's high summer when Molly Pargeter drags her amiably bickering family to a rented Tuscan villa for the holidays. Molly is sure that the house is the perfect setting for their three-week getaway, but soon she becomes fascinated by the lives of the absent owners - and things start to go horribly wrong. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141039770
28-10-2010
Horace Rumpole is not overfond of the rituals of Christmas: turkey, tinsel and the like. But happily the festive season is not one respected by the criminal fraternity; meaning that celebrations in the Rumpole household are frequently disturbed in most-welcome ways. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141030647
3-7-2008
ASBOs may be the pride and joy of New Labour, they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole - he takes the old-fashioned view that if anyone is going to be threatened with restriction of their liberty then some form of legal proceeding ought to be gone through first. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141035086
6-9-2007
Horace Rumpole - cigar-smoking, claret-drinking, Wordsworth-spouting defender of some unlikely clients - often speaks of the great murder trial which revealed his talents as an advocate and made his reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141193847
4-11-2010
Part of the author's autobiography, this first title recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote parents - an increasingly unconventional barrister father, whose blindness must never be mentioned, battling earwigs in the mutinous garden, and a vague and endlessly patient mother. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141193397
4-11-2010
When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector's two sons react in very different ways. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141011202
2-10-2003
Rumpole was last seen in his hospital bed after his sudden collapse in court. Things aren't looking good for Rumpole - until suddenly he begins to sense there's something wrong with the place, and all his intelligence and formidable insight into human behaviour come to the fore again. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780670919376
1-11-2012
Horace Rumpole lives alongside Mr Pickwick and Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal comic characters in English fiction. This title contains seven stories chosen by the author as his favourites, together with a further seven from the later period and the opening chapters of a Rumpole novel that Sir John was working on when he died in 2009. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780141025704
5-7-2007
Justice isn't blind - it's just a little short sighted and weak around the knees. Rumpole is asked to defend a Pakistani doctor who has been imprisoned without charge or trial on suspicion of aiding Al Qaeda. Meer
onbekendEngels9781787534537
6-8-2020
Desmond Barrit stars as Horace Rumpole in this full-cast, feature-length radio dramaRumpole has no special objection to Christmas – except that with the Old Bailey closed, he has no opportunity to exercise his skills in court. Meer
onbekendEngels9781787534476
3-10-2019
Timothy West takes on the role of Rumpole in these four delightful dramas featuring the wily barrister Rumpole and the Primrose PathRumpole exposes criminal practices at the nursing home where he was sent to recuperate after a heart attack, leaving him in dire need of claret, cheroots and good company. Meer