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Headlong by Michael Frayn
$12.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction
Martin Clay, a young, would-be art historian, sees a chance of a lifetime: to perform a great public service, and to make his professional reputation. To obtain the treasure he thinks he has identified involves him setting up a classic sting and risking everything that is valuable to him.
Headlong by Michael Frayn
$27.45 AUD
Category: General Fiction
An unlikely con man wagers wife, wealth, and sanity in pursuit of one of art's elusive old masters. Martin Clay, an easily distracted philosopher, and his scrupulous art-historian wife are invited to dinner by a boorish local landowner to assess the value of three dusty paintings moldering in the freezi ...Show more
Skios by Michael Frayn
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A story of mislaid indentity, misdirected passion and miscalculated consequences, from the master of farce. On the sunlit Greek island of Skios, the Fred Toppler Foundation's annual lecture is to be given by Dr Norman Wilfred, the world-famous authority on the scientific organisation of science. He turn ...Show more
Travels with a Typewriter: A Reporter at Large by Michael Frayn
$39.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction
'All writers of fiction should be required by law to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real world in front of their eyes is from the invented world behind them'. This is what Frayn did in mid-career, when he took up his old trade, journalism, and w ...Show more
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