Product Description: Fed up with questions about what he was going to do when he retired, Edward decided to get on his bicycle and ride from Le Havre to the Mediterranean. He struggled in Normandy to get directions from old men tipsy on Calvados by 9 am, passed by prairies of corn and acres of sunflowers, and hit his stride on the towpath of the Burgundy canal...read more

Product Description: Having delivered a particularly stirring speech at his recently deceased colleague's funeral, Monsieur Pamplemousse is more than a little disturbed when the coffin explodes during the ceremony. Luckily, his faithful hound Pommes Frites gave out a warning cry just in time, so there were no casualties...read more

Product Description: "Rumpole has been an inspired stroke of good fortune for us all." ―Daily Mail (London)Horace Rumpole, whose court scenes are proverbial, and whose home is ruled by Mrs. Rumpole, "She Who Must Be Obeyed," is back in these short stories...read more

Maggie Perowne is head of Old Masters at Klinsky's auction house in London. Ben Glazier is an art expert. Ben, not as young as he was, is inescapably in love with Maggie, but she has an unfortunate taste for such dubious men as the Hooray Henry in the wine department. Together Ben and Maggie form a crack team that blends integrity and professionalism with a keen eye for uncovering the mysterious circumstances surrounding priceless works of art.Take for example the matter of the underpriced Raphael, or the questionable Bronzino, or even the Cellini salt cellar. Maggie and Ben may be able to detect the fakes at one hundred paces, but spotting the forger may cause trickier problems….In the great tradition of Rumpole, John Mortimer has created an unforgettable cast of characters and struck a rich vein of humour.

Product Description: Following the bestselling Summer of a Dormouse, Sir John Mortimer―playwright, novelist, octogenarian, and erstwhile QC―offers up more lessons in living and growing old disgracefully. What would we like to leave to our descendants? Not a third-rate painting or our PEPS, according to Sir John, but a love of Shakespeare, a taste for alcohol, the ability to defeat boredom, the importance of never locking the lavatory door, and so on...read more

Product Description: The irrepressible, audacious Rumpole is back with seven marvelous stories."Rumpole is at his irresistible best in this collection of seven stories that run the gamut from simple thievery to murder and espionage.… The brilliance of this audio is in the voices Wallis uses to portray each individual...read more

Retirement is out of the question for the aging London barrister Horace Rumpole. He's back in another collection of delightful stories. In this collection of stories, Rumpole continues to juggle the vagaries of the law, the ambiguities of crime, and the contradictions of the human heart.

Product Description: In this collection of Rumpole stories the comic, courageous, and corpulent "great defender of muddled and sinful humanity" is joined by a winning cast of villains and victims in tales whose wry humor and sparkling wit deftly send up the legal system...read more

Product Description: This collection of six Rumpole stories shows the legendary advocate in top form.We last left Rumpole in his hospital bed after his sudden collapse in court. Now our hero finds himself in the Primrose Path nursing home—or a hospice as he persists in describing it...read more

Product Description: Throughout John Mortimer's career, he established profound friendships with people accused of various crimes. He also indulged his passion for writing, penning Paradise Postponed and a series of stories about Rumpole, for whom he was often mistaken...read more

Product Description: Tommy and Tuppence Beresford have just become the proud owners of an old house in an English village. Along with the property, they have inherited some worthless bric-a-brac, including a collection of antique books. While rustling through a copy of "The Black Arrow," Tuppence comes upon a series of apparently random underlinings...read more

First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthur, or The Death of King Arthur, is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems ever penned in Middle English. Now, from the internationally acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comes this magisterial new presentation of the Arthurian tale, rendered in unflinching and gory detail. Following Arthur's bloody conquests across the cities and fields of Europe, all the way to his spectacular and even bloodier fall, this masterpiece features some of the most spellbinding and poignant passages in English poetry. Never before have the deaths of Arthur's loyal knights, his own final hours, and the subsequent burial been so poignantly evoked. Echoing the lyrical passion that so distinguished Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, Simon Armitage has produced a virtuosic new translation that promises to become both the literary event of the year and the definitive edition for generations to come.

Product Description: I see murder in this unhappy hand... When Mrs. Robinson, palmist to the Prince of Wales, reads Oscar Wilde's hand, she cannot know what she has predicted. Nor can Oscar know what he has set in motion when, that same evening, he proposes a game of "murder" in which each of his Sunday Supper Club guests must write down those whom they would like to kill...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: The Galactic Coliseum is in crisis, their acts are boring alien audiences all over the universe. But theatre owner, Julian Chimes has something new, a ferocious, terrifying creature, totally unsuitable for children. Where did he get it from? On earth, newshound Sophie is looking for a story, but finds herself making the headlines...read more