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About this book
In mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the
Observer about some of the places in the world that interested him. He wanted to describe 'not the extraordinary but the ordinary, the typical, the everyday', and his accounts became the starting point for some of the novels and plays he wrote later.
From a kibbutz in Israel to summer rains in Japan, bicycles in Cambridge to Notting Hill at the end of the 1950s, they are glimpses of a world that sometimes seems tantalisingly familiar, sometimes vanished forever.
Michael Frayn is the celebrated author of fifteen plays including
Noises Off,
Copenhagen and
Afterlife. His bestselling novels include
Headlong, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize,
Spies, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award and
Skios, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
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All writers of fiction should be required by law to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real world in front of their eyes is from the invented world behind them." Michael Frayn
'Whether he's on a kibbutz or a bicycle, Frayn makes acute observations and the writing is enchanting.'
Conde Nast Traveller
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Table of Contents
- Introduction
- A Farewell to Money
- That First Taste of Abroad
- Anticlockwise is Best
- Capital of Nowhere
- Avalon Again
- From Sea to Shining Sea
- The Music of Radishes
- Wild West Eleven
- House 47, Block 2, Entrance 5
- A Pilgrimage to St Trop
- Warm Red Socks
- The End of the Dance
- The Smiling Faces of Paradise
- Rainbow over the Thames
- About the Author
- Copyright