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Clinging to the Wreckage: A Part of Life |
Mortimer is probably best known for his Rumpole TV series with a legal setting and for his play A Voyage Round My Father, based on the author's own blind barrister father who specialised in divorce cases. Both provided many moments of hilarity as does the author's autobiography with its numerous humorous anecdotes about eccentric characters and the disasters which befell them and he himself during his own career as an author and lawyer.
(Jeremy Swann - bwl 57 Summer 2010) |
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Rumpole and the Primrose Path |
These are short stories, as usual excellently written and very good bedtime reading.
(Julia Garbett - bwl 18 April 2003) |
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The Summer of a Dormouse - A Year of Growing Old Disgracefully |
Mortimer, distinguished playwright, novelist and former barrister, ponders on the trials of old age and regales us with gossipy anecdotes about famous actors, writers, lawyers and politicians as well as ordinary people he has known and the idiosyncrasies of the British legal system. Never afraid to tell a joke against himself, he recounts throwing his radio on a bonfire and other assorted mishaps in a gently humorous way that I enjoyed very much.
(Wendy Swann - bwl 36 September 2006) |
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The Third Rumpole Omnibus |
This is as good and amusing as those published before. As a retired non-contentious lawyer, I find this makes excellent reading and although repetitively cynical, should be read by any free-thinking person before being on a jury.
(Guy Harding - bwl 30 June 2005) |
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