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John Mortimer

John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist, and former practicing barrister who has written many film scripts as well as stage, radio, and television plays, the Rumpole plays, for which he received the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the adaptation of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited. He is the author of twelve collections of Rumpole stories and three acclaimed volumes of autobiography.
Forever Rumpole
A Rumpole Christmas
Rumpole Misbehaves
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
Quite Honestly
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
Rumpole and the Primrose Path
Rumpole Rests His Case
The Third Rumpole Omnibus
Summer's Lease
The Second Rumpole Omnibus
The First Rumpole Omnibus
Clinging to the Wreckage

Books

Forever Rumpole
A Rumpole Christmas
Rumpole Misbehaves
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror
Quite Honestly
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
Rumpole and the Primrose Path
Rumpole Rests His Case
The Third Rumpole Omnibus
Summer's Lease
The Second Rumpole Omnibus
The First Rumpole Omnibus
Clinging to the Wreckage

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