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Among Others: Friendships and Encounters by Michael Frayn
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Michael Frayn would like to say a brief word about a few of the friends who have shaped his life - 'before my memory goes'. Some have had a profound effect. Some, a small and passing one. Some, you may know yourself. Some you couldn't possibly know at all; and maybe nor did Michael (there are stories o ...Show more
Matchbox Theatre: Thirty Short Entertainments by Michael Frayn
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Matchbox Theatre presents a miniature sketch show: thirty dialogues and monologues by Michael Frayn, to be played in the smallest theatre in the world - the theatre of your own imagination. Sir Geoffrye and Lady Hilarye, sleeping peacefully on their marble tomb these last six hundred years, are woken b ...Show more
Skios by Michael Frayn
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
Stage Directions: Writing on Drama, 1970-2008 by Michael Frayn
$75.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The Human Touch : Our Part in the Creation of a Universe by Michael Frayn
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
What would the universe be like if human beings were not here to observe it? Would there still be numbers, or scientific laws? Would the universe even be vast, without our tininess to give it scale? The author of award-winning novels (such as "Spies"), plays ("Copenhagen" and "Noises Off") and films ("C ...Show more
The Human Touch: Our part in the creation of a universe by Michael Frayn
$70.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
'Imaginative, funny and dazzlingly clever.' John Carey, Sunday Times Mankind, scientists agree, is a tiny and insignificant anomaly in the impersonal vastness of the universe. But what would that universe be like if we were not here to say something about it? Would it even be so vast, without the fact ...Show more
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