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Michael Frayn


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Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include 'Towards the End of the Morning', 'The Trick of It' and 'A Landing on the Sun'. 'Headlong' was shortlisted for the 1999 Booker Prize, Whitbread Novel Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction. His most recent novel, 'Spies', is now available in paperback. His thirteen plays range from 'Noises Off' to 'Copenhagen', and he has translated a number of works, mostly from Russian. He is married to the biographer and critic Claire Tomalin.
 
 
Novels
   The Tin Men (1965)
   The Russian Interpreter (1966)
   Towards the End of the Morning (1967)
     aka Against Entropy
   A Very Private Life (1968)
   Sweet Dreams (1973)
   The Trick of It (1989)
   A Landing On the Sun (1991)
   Headlong (1999)
   Spies (2002)
   Skios (2012)
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Collections
   The Two of Us (1970)
   Listen To This (1990)
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Novellas and Short Stories
   Celia's Secret (2000) (with David Burke)
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Plays show
 
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Michael Frayn recommends
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The Upstairs Room (2017)
Kate Murray-Browne
"A very impressive debut. The story is played out in an unsettling narrative that makes you want to read on to the end."
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Five Rivers Met On a Wooded Plain (2016)
Barney Norris
"Wonderful...I was hooked from the first page. It's real stuff."

Awards
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (1999) : Headlong
James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction Best Book nominee (1999) : Headlong
Whitbread Prize Best Novel nominee (1999) : Headlong
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel winner (2002) : Spies
Whitbread Prize Best Novel winner (2002) : Spies
Booker Prize Best Novel nominee (2012) : Skios
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel nominee (2013) : Skios


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