Description
John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist and former practising barrister. During the war he worked with the Crown Film Unit and published s number of novels before turning to theatre. He has written many films scripts, radio and television plays, including A Voyage Round My Father, the Rumpole plays, which won him the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. Penguin publish his many collections of Rumpole stories; two volumes of his plays; his acclaimed autobiography Clinging to the Wreckage; and In Character and Character Parts, which contain interviews with some of the most famous men and women of our time. His novels include Summer's Lease, Paradise Postponed, its sequel, Titmuss Regained (all of which have been made into successful television series), Charade and Dunster.
John Mortimer lives with his wife and their two daughters in what was once his father's house in the Chilterns. ISBN:0140177353 
