{"product_id":"9780571240906-travels-with-a-typewriter","title":"Travels with a Typewriter","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA Reporter at Large\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003eabout some of the places in the world that interested him.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn mid-career, Michael Frayn took up his old trade of journalism, and wrote a series of occasional articles for the \u003ci\u003eObserver \u003c\/i\u003eabout some of the places in the world that interested him. He wanted to describe 'not the extraordinary but the ordinary, the typical, the everyday', and his accounts became the starting point for some of the novels and plays he wrote later. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  From a kibbutz in Israel to summer rains in Japan, bicycles in Cambridge to Notting Hill at the end of the 1950s, they are glimpses of a world that sometimes seems tantalisingly familiar, sometimes vanished forever. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Michael Frayn is the celebrated author of fifteen plays including\u003ci\u003e Noises Off\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCopenhagen\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eAfterlife. \u003c\/i\u003eHis bestselling novels include \u003ci\u003eHeadlong\u003c\/i\u003e, which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, \u003ci\u003eSpies\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the Whitbread Best Novel Award and \u003ci\u003eSkios\u003c\/i\u003e, which was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"\u003ci\u003eAll writers of fiction should be required by law to go out and do a bit of reporting from time to time, just to remind them how different the real world in front of their eyes is from the invented world behind them.\" \u003c\/i\u003eMichael Frayn \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003eWhether he's on a kibbutz or a bicycle, Frayn makes acute observations and the writing is enchanting.' \u003ci\u003eConde Nast Traveller \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56449738441078,"sku":"9780571240906","price":8.01,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40024824.jpg?v=1771483726","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571240906-travels-with-a-typewriter","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}