The Summer Of A Dormouse : A Year Of Growing Old Disgracefully

Author: John Mortimer

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Price : 24.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780140291124
Publisher : pengui
Imprint : pengui
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Weight (g) : 0.164
Publication date : 02 August 2001
Dimensions : 198mm X 128mm X 16mm
Produced in : United Kingdom
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Description

Recounts a full year in author's life, which includes working on films, raising Lottery money for the Royal Court, chairing the committee that decides on the Trafalgar Square statue, having lunch with old lags in prison, and harrying New Labour.

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'Charming, intelligent, cheerful, mellifluous, gossipy and wise. Buy it for Christmas' - Fay Weldon, Mail on Sunday

Author description

Sir John Mortimer was born in 1923. He created the character Rumpole of the Bailey, and wrote a bestselling trilogy of political novels featuring the politician Leslie Titmuss. He has also written many TV adaptations, including Brideshead Revisited and Cider with Rosie, and two volumes of autobiography. He lives in the Chilterns, near Henley.

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