John Mortimer

The official tie-in to Masterpiece Theatre's May presentation of Summer's Lease, starring John Gielgud. The villa near a small Tuscan town is everything the Pargeter family could want for three weeks. But when the idyll turns sour, Molly Pargeter begins to wonder about their mysterious absentee landlord.

Summer's Lease

The Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister’s many followers have a special reason to rejoice: a sensational full-length Rumpole novel that at last relates the oft-mentioned but never revealed story of Rumpole’s first case, the Penge Bungalow affair. Looking back half a century into a very different world, Rumpole recalls a man accused of murdering his father and his father’s friend with a pistol taken from a dead German pilot. It was this trial and its outcome that put Rumpole on the map and shaped him into the cantankerous defender of justice that readers know and love. This is a must-read for every Rumpole fan and a compelling invitation to new readers.

Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders

Great Law and Order Stories

Soon after the Pargeters lease a villa near a small Tuscan town, their conscientious landlord mysteriously disappears. Puzzling questions quickly emerge: Why are the neighbors evasive about his whereabouts? How was their pool suddenly drained? Was his death really a suicide?

The iconoclastic Horace Rumpole returns in a collection of six tales in which the irreverent barrister takes on a half-dozen memorable cases

The Trials of Rumpole

'The Sound of Trumpets' completes the trilogy of political comedy that began with Paradise Postponed. When the sitting Tory MP for Hartscombe is found dead in scandalous circumstances, the New Labour Candidate is given the perfect opportunity for power.

The Sound of Trumpets

In a collection of stories, curmudgeonly London barrister Horace Rumpole, recovering from a heart attack, takes on a nasty head nurse at his run-down convalescent center as he investigates the mysterious death of an elderly patient.

Rumpole and the primrose path

Rumpole of the Bailey

Clinging to the Wreckage

Rumpole and the Younger Generation

El apacible pueblo inglés de Rapstone Fanner está amenazado por un salvaje plan urbanístico que pone en peligro su encanto y también el del idílico valle que lo rodea. El honorable Leslie Titmuss, diputado local y ministro de Territorio, Urbanismo y Fomento en el gobierno conservador de Margaret Thatcher, está ocupado cortejando a la bella viuda Jenny Sidonia y no sabe muy bien a qué carta quedarse. ¿Debería ser coherente con sus ideas y apoyar a los especuladores? ¿No sería mejor, en cambio, proteger su pueblo (y de paso su recién estrenada casa de campo) de los bloques de oficinas, centros comerciales y toneladas de asfalto que lo van a sepultar? Mortimer retoma alguno de los personajes de su exitosa Un paraíso inalcanzable para componer una novela inteligente y bienhumorada en la que demuestra, una vez más, su profundo conocimiento de las relaciones humanas. Una formidable sátira sobre las maquinaciones políticas y los cambios que el desarrollo económico produjo en la sociedad inglesa a finales del siglo XX. «Mortimer retrata los orígenes y la explosión del thatcherismo pero, como casi siempre que alguien dice algo literariamente perdurable, lo hace de forma indirecta.»Nadal Suau (El Cultural) «Mortimer despliega un talento extraordinario, de una viveza difícilmente comparable.»Ricardo Menéndez Salmón (Mercurio) «El entorno enrarecido de las pequeñas comunidades, los secretos de familia, las miserias y servidumbres de la política, los vínculos conyugales o los no menos problemáticos entre padres e hijos, son algunos de los temas tratados por Mortimer, de una manera inteligente y bienhumorada que revela un profundo conocimiento de las relaciones humanas.»Ignacio F. Garmendia (Diario de Sevilla)

El regreso de Titmuss

Included are twenty stories featuring Horace Rumpole, the claret-swilling, poetry-spouting barristor investigator

The Second Rumpole Omnibus

'Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal' P. D. James Horace Rumpole - dishevelled barrister at law, drinker of claret and smoker of cigars, inveterate quoter of Wordsworth and eternal defender of the underdog - is one of the greatest English comic characters ever created. This is the original volume of Rumpole stories, introducing us to the legal triumphs that first made the Old Bailey Hack's name, along with a host of choice villains, frequent forays to Pommeroy's wine bar and, of course, his formidable, magisterial wife Hilda, She Who Must Be Obeyed. 'I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole' Clive James 'A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind' Sunday Times

Pantos, puds and a Father Christmas who isn't quite what he seems to be... Rumpole isn't particularly fond of Christmas - time has a horrible habit of hanging heavily on the hands as the usual rituals are observed: exchanging presents with She Who Must Be Obeyed (a tie for him; lavender water for her) before settling down round the fire at Froxbury Mansions for a traditional turkey with all the trimmings and a bottle of Chateau Thames Embankment, then the Queen's Speech and a glass of port. But at least the criminal fraternity never rests, and many is the time Rumpole's 'celebrations' have been rudely interrupted. In these seven Christmas stories, previously published only in magazines, the call of justice (and a bit of excitement) leads Rumpole as far afield as a health farm in Norfolk and as near to home as a pantomime at the Tufnell Park Empire.

Rumpole at Christmas

The Waima River Years

From a Distance

In this spirited memoir John Mortimer, an esteemed barrister as well as novelist, playwright, and journalist, relates all the paradoxes and pleasures of his double life. With wit and style, Mr. Mortimer takes you from his unusual childhood (his father, a blind barrister, insisted that his wife read the sordid details of his divorce briefs in public) to the dilemmas of his life as a barrister (one of his clients indignantly declared, "Your Mr. Rumpole could have gotten me out of this, why the hell can't you!"). Filled with laughter and a sense of the absurd, , Clinging to the Wreckage makes it clear why John Mortimer has been called Noel Coward, P. G. Wodehouse, and Evelyn Waugh rolled into one.

A Part of Life

The lovable, irreverent, claret-swigging, Wordsworth-spouting criminal lawyer returns to the fray to fight new battles against injustice. Stories such as Rumpole and the Younger Generation and Rumpole and the Showfolk are included. Rumpole is featured in an ITV series.

The Best of Rumpole

Justice isn�t blind � it�s just a little short sighted and weak around the knees � A Rumpole novel which takes on New Labour and the Timson family, and includes extracts from the memoirs of Hilda Rumpole, aka She Who Must Be Obeyed � Tiffany Timson's new husband Mahmoud Khan, is arrested on suspicion of terrorism. Rumpole is frustrated in his defence campaign by New Labour laws that render the British legal system a farce � defending a suspected terrorist proves a tricky task even for the great defender ... He insists upon a fair trial, and his fight for justice brings him into confrontation not only with Hilda, but with the leaders of New Labour ...

Rumpole and the Reign of Terror

John Clifford Mortimer

Garrick Theatre, Michael Codron and David Hall present Trevor Howard in "Two Stars For Comfort," a new play by John Mortimer, the play directed by Michael Elliott, setting by Malcolm Pride, lighting by Richard Pilbrow.

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