title: Rumpole for the Prosecution/Rumpole and the Summer of Discontent (Audiobook)
author: John Mortimer
description: " Fans of the Rumpole series on PBS will not be disappointed by this audio presentation." G.A.D. (c)AudioFile, Portland, Maine
zlib_text: PENGUIN BOOKS
  
  RUMPOLE RESTS HIS CASE
  
  Sir John Mortimer is a playwright, novelist and former practising barrister.
  During the war he worked with the Crown Film Unit and published a number of
  novels, before turning to theatre. He has written many film scripts, and plays
  for both radio and television, including A Voyage Round My Father, the Rumpole
  plays, which won him the British Academy Writer of the Year Award, and the
  adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited. He has also written
  Character Parts, which contains interviews with some of the most famous men
  and women of our time, and an acclaimed autobiography in three volumes,
  entitled Clinging to the Wreckage, Murderers and Other Friends and The Summer
  of a Dormouse. His novels include Summer's Lease, Paradise Postponed, Titmuss
  Regained (which have been made into successful television series), Charade,
  Dunster, Felix in the Underworld and The Sound of Trumpets. Many of his books
  are published by Penguin.
  
  Sir John lives with