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Michael Frayn at 90: a miscellany of the satirical columnist’s finest moments

• robjwells 3y ago
  Sadly Frayn will always be tarred in my eyes having been subjected to Spies in GCSE(? A-level? It all blurs together) English.
  • okeuro49 3y ago
    I was thinking about making the same comment. It's such an awful book.
  • gilleain 3y ago
    Oh, well he wrote a lot of other stuff! My favorite would be 'The Tin Men' set in a research institute. It has ethical robots, and universal headline language (UHL) among other ideas.
• nickcw 3y ago
  I only read one of his books, a SciFi novella called "A Very Private Life" which I picked up in a second hand book sale on a whim. I really enjoyed it. SciFi come with the thinking of the time it was written (1968) and some of that is evident, but the idea of a society ("the insiders") which never meet each other in the flesh and only interact via screens seems quite prophetic. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25958761-a-very-private-life https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25958761-a-very-private-...
• spants 3y ago
  I sold Michael a computer with an A4 white display in the 90s - nice guy. My favourite work is the film "Clockwise" with John Cleese.....
• cafard 3y ago
  Didn't he write The Russian Interpreter and Noises Off?