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‘Still ranks with Evelyn Waugh’s Scoop as one of the funniest novels about journalists ever written.’ Sunday Times
Michael Frayn’s classic novel is set in the crossword and nature notes department of an obscure national newspaper during the declining years of Fleet Street, where John Dyson dreams wistfully of fame and the gentlemanly life – until one day his great chance of glory at last arrives. Michael Frayn is the celebrated author of fifteen plays including Noises Off, The Russian Interpreter and Afterlife.
Funny Side of the Street
At some point in the early 1960s Jennings was supplanted in the Observer by someone altogether more bracing: Michael Frayn. It was about the time of That Was the Week That Was and Private Eye, and...
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