Ruth Rendell was one of the great crime writers. Her books – notable for their careful psychological observation, as well as their gripping plots – have sold over 20 million copies worldwide, and she won numerous awards, including the Crime Writers” Association Cartier Diamond Dagger for sustained excellence in crime writing. In 1996 she was awarded the CBE and in 1997 became a Life Peer. Ruth Rendell died in May 2015.
37 Ebooks by John Mortimer
Cecily Gayford: A Very Murderous Christmas
The Christmas season is one of comfort and joy, sparkling lights and steam rising from cups of mulled wine at frosty carol services. A season of goodwill, as families and friends come together to for …
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John Mortimer & Brian Rooks: International Robot Industry Report
Like many other new technologies which have since been seized and exploited by others, the industrial robot is a British invention. In 1957, a patent was produced by a British inventor, Cyril Walter …
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John Mortimer: Collected Stories of Rumpole
Horace Rumpole – witty, eloquent, dishevelled and cynical – is one of fiction’s best-loved barristers-at-law. In these twenty classic tales, Rumpole battles through the Old Bailey, whether defending …
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John Mortimer: In Other Words
In Other Words – a hilarious book of verse, anecdotes and memories by John Mortimer From one of Britain’s greatest ever raconteurs, these are the stories with which John Mortimer entertained the nati …
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John Mortimer: Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole
The Anti-social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole – a delightful novel starring John Mortimer’s iconic character’One of the great comic creations of modern times’ Evening Standard ASBOs may be the pride an …
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John Mortimer: Quite Honestly
Quite Honestly – a hilarious crime novel by bestselling Rumpole author John Mortimer Life couldn’t be better for Lucinda Purefoy. She’s got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences and the off …
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John Mortimer: Summer’s Lease
Summer’s Lease – the classic, international bestselling novel by John Mortimer’Amusing, entertaining … and a cracking good read’ Sunday Express’And summer’s lease hath all too short a date’ – Sonne …
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John Mortimer: Rumpole Rests His Case
Rumpole Rests His Case – seven hilarious stories starring John Mortimer’s unforgettable barrister The comic, courageous, and corpulent Horace Rumpole reenters the fray in these seven fresh and funny …
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John Mortimer: Rumpole and the Primrose Path
Rumpole and the Primrose Path – six hilarious crime capers starring John Mortimer’s iconic character’Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal’ P. D James, Mail on Sunday’I thank heaven f …
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John Mortimer: First Rumpole Omnibus
A CLASSIC COLLECTION OF JOHN MORTIMER’S ICONIC CHARACTER, DISCOVER THE FIRST RUMPOLE OMNIBUS! ‘One of the great comic creations of modern times’ Evening Standard ‘Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Ho …
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John Mortimer: Where There’s a Will
Following the bestselling SUMMER OF A DORMOUSE, Sir John Mortimer – playwright, novelist, octogenarian and erstwhile QC – offers up more wickedly funny lessons in living and growing old disgracefully …
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John Mortimer: Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror – a delightful novel starring John Mortimer’s iconic barrister’Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal’ P. D James, Mail on Sunday’I thank heaven for sma …
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John Mortimer: Rumpole at Christmas
The hilarious festive stories of John Mortimer’s greatest character. Sure to get you in the mood for Christmas! ‘Without Rumpole, the world would be a poorer place’ Daily Mail Horace Rumpole is not o …
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John Mortimer: CLINGING TO THE WRECKAGE
Clinging to the Wreckage is the first part of John Mortimer’s acclaimed autobiography. Here he recounts his solitary childhood in the English countryside, with affectionate portraits of his remote pa …
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John Mortimer: Paradise Postponed
When Simeon Simcox, a socialist clergyman, leaves his entire fortune not to his family but to the ruthless, social-climbing Tory MP Leslie Titmuss, the Rector’s two sons react in very different ways. …
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John Mortimer: Titmuss Regained
The Right Honourable Leslie Titmuss has clawed his way up the Tory government ranks and is now Secretary of State at the Ministry of Housing, Ecological Affairs and Planning (H.E.A.P.), and in pursui …
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John Mortimer: Sound of Trumpets
When a Tory MP is found dead in a swimming-pool wearing a leopardskin bikini, the embittered Leslie (now Lord) Titmuss sees the ideal opportunity to re-enter the political arena. All he needs is a pu …
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John Mortimer: Second Rumpole Omnibus
The Second Rumpole Omnibus – a classic collection of John Mortimer’s greatest character’Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal’ P. D James, Mail on Sunday’I thank heaven for small merc …
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John Mortimer: Forever Rumpole
Forever Rumpole – a hilarious new selection of the very best Rumpole stories by John Mortimer Horace Rumpole lives alongside Mr Pickwick and Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal comic characters in …
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John Mortimer: Rumpole of the Bailey
‘Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal’ P. D. James Horace Rumpole – dishevelled barrister at law, drinker of claret and smoker of cigars, inveterate quoter of Wordsworth and eternal …
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John Mortimer: Paradise Postponed
Paradise Postponed – John Mortimer’s classic novel, now part of the Penguin Decades series Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. When they were published, some were b …
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John Mortimer: Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
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 …
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John Mortimer: Charade
Charade by John Mortimer – the classic novel first published in 1947Its June 1944 in an English seaside resort and a shy young man has just joined an army film unit making a documentary about army tr …
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Dickens Charles Dickens & Mortimer John Mortimer: Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol
Perfect for pupils aged 11+, this stage version of Dickens’ classic tale uses John Mortimer’s much-loved dramatisation first produced by the RSC in 1994. This educational edition in Methuen Drama’s C …
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John Mortimer: Trials of Rumpole
‘I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Rumpole’ Clive James Horace Rumpole, the irrepressible barrister fuelled by cigars, Tennyson, steak-and-kidney pud and the cooking claret from …
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John Mortimer: Rumpole’s Return
‘A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind’ Sunday Times Horace Rumpole is in a strange state that could only be described as a kind of air-conditioned purgatory: he has re …
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John Mortimer: Los casos de Horace Rumpole, abogado
Insigne defensor de las causas perdidas, Horace Rumpole es un abogado adorable, un hombre de altos ideales y de gran sentido común, que fuma cigarros malos, bebe un clarete aún peor, es aficionado a …
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John Mortimer: Los juicios de Rumpole
Un vicario al que se le acusa de robar camisetas en una tienda, pero que se niega a declarar en su propia defensa; un actor y mánager de teatro que muere en extrañas circunstancias y cuyo asesinato s …
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John Mortimer & Tom O’Donoghue: Making of Geography as a Secondary School Subject
No work has ever been produced previously that shows how historically geography has been constructed as a subject for the senior years of secondary schooling in Western Australia from 1917 to 1997. I …
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