Rumpole and the Age for Retirement

Name: Rumpole and the Age for Retirement
Brand: Findaway
Availability: InStock
Author: John Mortimer
ISBN: 9781601361479

Author: John Mortimer

Narrator: Leo McKern

Abridged: 1 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Audio Holdings

Published: 01/01/2009

Categories: Fiction, Legal

Synopsis

Leo McKern is Horace Rumpole! Here he reads about the life and trials of the eccentric barrister, famous for his inestimable knowledge of blood stains, blood groups and forgery by typewriter. Witty and cynical as ever, Horace Rumpole will once again delight listeners with his irreverent behavior and legal triumphs. Will he and his long time client Percy Timson both be forced to retire, one to sunny climes, the other to jail?

About John Mortimer

John Mortimer (1923–2009) was a playwright, novelist, and barrister. He wrote many radio, film, and television scripts, including the British television series Rumpole of the Bailey, and won the British Academy Writer of the Year Award in 1979. He retired from the bar in 1984 and was knighted in 1998.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ben on June 17, 2016

Purchase a large bottle of tequila and start walking from Ernest Hemingway's house to Vladimir Nabokov's house. As you're walking, take a drink for the sake of squandered love. Then take one for isolation. Take one drink for war, and two for peace. Take one for world-weariness. Take one for betrayal......more

Goodreads review by Vit on May 02, 2022

Under the Volcano is like a ticking time bomb – an explosion is unavoidable and with every new fanciful sentence it is nearer. The day of remembering and honouring the deceased – a grotesque carnival of dread – the Day of the Dead… …Night: and once again, the nightly grapple with death, the room shaki......more

Goodreads review by Fabian on December 08, 2020

A good word to describe 1947’s Under the Volcano by Malcolm Lowry is LANGUID. This is authentic rambling & genuinely just one loooong continuous drivel. All of it: sound and fury signifying… nothing. It’s a true pity that the book is so inaccessible, unreadable; it invites for some spontaneous skimm......more