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Quite Honestly by John Mortimer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. Granted it's a little embarrassing, her father being the Bishop of Aldershot, but she's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences and the offer of a job in advertising. With all this, she felt she should pay back her debt to society and do a littl ...Show more
Quite Honestly by John Mortimer
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Life couldn't be better for Lucinda Purefoy. Granted it's a little embarrassing, her father being the Bishop of Aldershot, but she's got a steady boyfriend, a degree in social sciences from Manchester University and the offer of a job in advertising. With all that, she felt she should pay back her debt ...Show more
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 reputation down at the Bailey when he was still a young man.<brNow, for the first time, the sensationa ...Show more
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders: Popular Penguins by John Mortimer
$12.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
John Mortimer's Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murderssees our eponymous hero tackle his first ever case. It is just after the war and two RAF heroes are found shot dead. Simon Jerold, the son of one of the victims, is the only suspect and young Rumpole is given the hopeless task of defending him. But R ...Show more
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror by John Mortimer
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Justice isn't blind ? it's just a little short sighted and weak around the knees.. . His wig may be yellowing and his gown might be in tatters, but Rumpole will not give up the good fight - not while there's injustice to battle. When a distressed TiffanyTimson (of the infamous South London clan of ...Show more
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror by John Mortimer
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In the dark days of the war on terror, only one man can be counted on to fight injustice, defend the innocent, and insist on a fair and decent trial for all, contrary to New Labour's new anti-terrorism laws. Rumpole's wig may be yellowing at the roots, his gown might be in tatters, but the oldest inhabi ...Show more
Rumpole at Christmas by John Mortimer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Pantos, puds and a Father Christmas who isn't quite what he seems to be...Rumpole isn't particularly fond of Christmas - time has a horrible habit of hanging heavily on the hands as the usual rituals are observed: exchanging presents with She Who Must Be Obeyed (a tie for him; lavender water for her) be ...Show more
Rumpole of the Bailey by John Mortimer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Horace Rumpole, the old boy committed to defending the apparently indefensible, trusting of a jury, scornful of the law's pomposities, appears here in a new edition of the 1978 iconic Rumpole debut.This volume collects the much-loved stories 'Rumpole and the Younger Generation', 'Rumpole and the Alterna ...Show more
Rumpole's Return by John Mortimer
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'A fruity, foxy masterpiece, defender of our wilting faith in mankind' Sunday TimesHorace Rumpole - the rascally, Wordsworth-quoting Old Bailey hack - should be enjoying his retirement. Soaking unhappily in the Florida sun with his wife, Hilda (She Who Must Be Obeyed), it is safely assumed by all that R ...Show more
The Anti-Social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole by John Mortimer
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
ASBOs may be the pride and joy of New Labour, but they don't cut much ice with Horace Rumpole - he takes the old-fashioned view that if anyone is going to be threatened with a restriction of their liberty then some form of legal proceeding ought to be gone through first. Not that Hilda agrees, of course ...Show more
The Collected Stories of Rumpole by Sir John Mortimer
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
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 various members of an incompetent South London crime family, taking on haute-cuisine chefs and showfolk o ...Show more