On the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned foundation prepare for the annual keynote address, to be given this year by Dr. Norman Wilfred, an eminent authority on the scientific organization of sc...

A witty artistic quest of white lies, self-justification, and self-delusion begins when philosopher Martin Clay and his art expert wife discover what they believe to be a priceless work of art in the hands of a crude local squire. Rep...

On the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned foundation prepare for the annual keynote address, to be given this year by Dr. Norman Wilfred, an eminent authority on the scientific organization of sc...

From the bestselling author of Headlong and Spies, 'an unconditional triumph' (The Washington Post Book World)For fifteen years, ever since the taciturn civil servant Summerchild fell to his death from a window in the Admiralty, there...

How different would the world have looked had the Nazis been the first to build an atomic bomb? Werner Heisenberg, one of Hitler's lead nuclear scientists, famously and mysteriously met in Copenhagen with his colleague and mentor, Nie...

Winner of the PEN/Ackerley PrizeAward-winning playwright and novelist Michael Frayn "makes the family memoir his own" (The Daily Telegraph) as he tells the story of his father, Tom Frayn. A clever lad, an asbestos salesman w...

The great master of farce turns to an exclusive island retreat for a comedy of mislaid identities, unruly passions, and demented, delicious disorderOn the private Greek island of Skios, the high-paying guests of a world-renowned found...

World War II in Britain is the setting for Michael Frayn's novel about an old man, Stephen Wheatley, who returns to the village of his youth. He remembers his boyhood and the war games he played with his best friend, Keith, which incl...

Michael Frayn was staging his now-famous play COPENHAGEN, about the 1941 meeting between Nazi scientist Werner Heisenberg and physicist Neils Bohr, when mysteriously a strange batch of letters concerning Nazi-era scientific research a...

He knows everything about her before they meet: the make of pen she writes with, her exact height, the various honorary degrees she holds. He knows more about her nine novels and 27 short stories than she does herself. Naturally—he ...