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1	Copenhagen more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work together on quantum mechanics and the uncertainty principle. But now the world had changed, and the two men ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.88! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Noises Off: A Play in Three Acts more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning play about the troupe of actors struggling to put on a production of a play called NOTHING ON, in which backstage and onstage begin to merge--disastrously. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions
3	Spies more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist 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 included a dangerous fantasy that Keith's mother was actually a German spy. A New York Times Notable Book for 2002. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Headlong more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist In this humorous novel about the art world and its excesses, the appearance of a lost painting that may or may not be by Bruegel occasions a series of exercises in deceit, betrayal, and blind optimism when the man who comes across it at the home of a neighbor resolves that he must possess it at all costs. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of a Universe more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist With wit, charm, and brilliance, this epic work sets out to make sense of our place in the scheme of things. Surveying the spectrum of philosophical concerns from the existence of space and time to relativity and language, Frayn attempts to resolve what he calls "the oldest mystery": the world is what we make of it. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Chekhov: Plays: The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, the Cherry Orchard, and Four Vaudevilles more books like this by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Michael Frayn (Translator) add to wishlist This volume includes The Seagull, a about the battle for power between a mother and her son which ends in tragedy; Uncle Vanya tells of two obsessive love affairs that lead nowhere, and a flirtation that brings disaster; Three Sisters in which three siblings wrestle with their futures and The Cherry Orchard where the old must inevitably give way ... see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.93!
7	Sweet Dreams more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist After driving through a red light, Howard Baker, an architect, is catapulted into heaven - which turns out to be a metropolis, with skyscrapers, expressways and comprehensive schools. Howard's adventures and achievements provide Frayn with opportunities to satirize modern upper-middle-class life. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Copenhagen Papers more books like this by Michael Frayn, David Burke add to wishlist 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 arrived in the playwright's mail. Frayn is befuddled by the package, which he believes is a hoax until British ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Noises Off more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist Michael Frayn's Tony Award-winning play about the troupe of actors struggling to put on a production of a play called NOTHING ON, in which backstage and onstage begin to merge--disastrously. see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.10! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Now you know more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist "One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) Now You Know: "Frayn's light but serious, marvellous play, about official and unofficial secrets, about idle curiosity and investigative purpose" (Observer) see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11	A Landing on the Sun more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist A civil servant in the Cabinet Office, Brian Jessel, is asked to reopen the case of a predecessor who died in the 1970s, apparently by suicide. As he investigates the case he discovers what really happened - and the reader learns about Brian's own troubled life. By the author of "The Trick of It". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Democracy: A Play more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist Frayn once again creates out of the known events of 20th-century history a drama of extraordinary urgency and subtlety, reimagining the interactions and motivations of Willy Brandt as he became chancellor of West Germany in 1966 and those of his political circle. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Towards the end of the morning more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist Frayn's 1967 novel about Fleet Street portrays a newspaper world long since gone. Stuck in a sleepy newspaper department, covering nature notes and crosswords, Dyson dreams of liberation and recognition. When a chance occurs to appear on TV, he eagerly prepares to greet the celebrity life. see all copies from $2.53! new only from $11.16! \| first editions
14 view cover	The Human Touch: Our Part in the Creation of the Universe more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist With wit, charm, and brilliance, this epic work sets out to make sense of our place in the scheme of things. Surveying the spectrum of philosophical concerns from the existence of space and time to relativity and language, Frayn attempts to resolve what he calls "the oldest mystery": the world is what we make of it. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.99! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Copenhagen Papers: An Intrigue more books like this by Michael Frayn, David Burke add to wishlist 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 arrived in the playwright's mail. Frayn is befuddled by the package, which he believes is a hoax until British ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Cherry Orchard: Translation Michael Frayn more books like this by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Michael Frayn (Translator) add to wishlist The final play written by the famous Russian author, first published in 1904. It portrays the decline of the charming and doomed Ranevskaya family, and opens with Madame Ranevskaya returning debt-ridden to Russia after a five-year exile in Paris following the death of her son. The unscrupulous merchant Lopakhin convinces her that she can only ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92!
17	Benefactors: A Play in Two Acts more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.98! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Democracy (Methuen Fast Track Playscripts) by Michael Frayn add to wishlist Three political parties, in and out of bed with each other like drunken intellectuals, fifteen warring cabinet ministers, and sixty million separate egos. All making deals with each other and breaking them. All looking round at every moment to see the expression on everyone else's face. All trying to guess which way everyone else will jump. All ... see all copies from $2.45! new only from $14.53!
19	Wild honey : a comedy more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist see all copies from $2.87! new only from $6.64!
20 view cover	Donkeys' Years by Michael Frayn add to wishlist Michael Frayn's 'gorgeous farce' about a university reunion premiered thirty years ago at the Globe Theatre, London. Returning to the West End in a sparkling new production, it remains a classic comedy. Twenty years after graduation, six former students return to their university college for a reunion dinner. Whilst their lives may have had ... see all copies from $4.80! new only from $8.97! \| SVS
21 view cover	First and Last more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist "One of theatre's subtlest, most sophisticated minds" (The Times) One spring morning a quiet, shy man in his sixties sets out from Land's End to walk the length of his native land. He has never walked more than a dozen miles in his life before, his health is uncertain, his boots are new, and he is too diffident to talk to anyone he meets along the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.56! \| signed copies \| first editions
22	Copenhagen : a play in two acts more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist Near the beginning of World War I, the great German physicist Werner Heisenberg paid a visit to an old friend and mentor, Niels Bohr, who lived in Copenhagen, hoping to get information from Bohr that would help him to build the nuclear bomb he was working on for Hitler. Since Bohr was part-Jewish and was working for the Allies, the meeting took on ... see all copies from $6.58! new only from $16.99!
23	Great Railway Journeys more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.50! \| first editions
24	Constructions more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist see all copies from $4.64! new only from $10.31!
25 view cover	Michael Frayn Plays: 3: Here, Now You Know, La Belle Vivette more books like this by Michael Frayn add to wishlist The new collection from the author of the Booker-shortlisted novel Headlong and the internationally acclaimed play Copenhagen Here: "about time, space and life A touching, brilliant construction. It's both deeply thought and deeply felt' (Sunday Times); Now You Know: "Frayn's light but serious, marvellous new play, about official and unofficial ... see all copies from $3.33! new only from $21.68!

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