Collected Columns by Frayn, Michael -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Almost too utterly common entrance Among the funny bones And Home’s son’s father is Hume’s father’s son Another little job for the cleaners At bay in Gear Street At the sign of the rupture belt

The bar sinister The battle of the books Black whimsy Bodbury: the nation waits Bodbury speaks out! Brought to book Business worries

Can you hear me, mother? Chez crumble Child and superchild Childholders Cleveland Suede Accuses The cogitations of the Earl of Each Comedy of viewers Composition for ten hands Cottage industry

D.Op. Destroy before reading Dig my dogma Divine news, darlings!

East of Suez Eating for others Eternity in a tube of toothpaste Every day in every way

Facing the music The faith of a snout baron A farewell to arms 51 to Blangy 57 types of ambiguity Firm friends of ours Fog-like sensations From the Improved Version Frox ’n’ sox Fun with numbers

Gagg speaks Gentle reader Gift to the nation

H & C Hamlet OBE A hand of cards He said, she said Head to head Heart-cry from beautiful Yvonne Romaine H.I.5 Housebiz

I said, ‘My Name is “Ozzy” Manders, Dean of King’s’ I say Toronto, you say Topeka I think I’m right in saying In funland In the Morris manner In the superurbs Inside the Krankenhaus Ivan Kudovbin

A letter from the publisher Listener sport The literature of coexistentialism Lives and likenesses Lloyd The long and the short of it

The Magic Mobile The mails must go through Major minor Making a name for yourself The manual writer’s manual The meteorological school Money well changed The monolithic view of mirrors My life and loves My nature diary

Never put off to Gomorrah New man coming Night thoughts No one could be kinder The normal fifth Now then

Oh, un peu, vous savez, un peu On the receiving end On the subject of objects Our pleasure, Captain! Outside story

Pas devant les enfants Plain speaking on S’Agaro Please be seated A pleasure shared A princess in disguise Private collections

A question of character A question of downbringing

Ready, steady … no … Return match Ron Number

The sad tale of P-t-r B-nnykin Sandra sesame Save it for the stairs School of applied art Scrapbook for 1964 Service with a smile Services rendered The sleepy sickness Smoothe’s law Songs without words Spock’s Guide to Parent Care Strain cook thoroughly before serving Substance without soul

Tell us everything Tête-à-tête-à-tête That having been said Through the wilderness Total scholarship Twelfth Night; or, What Will You Have?

A very quiet car A very special collection

We all say the same What the mice foretell What the peepers see What the stars foretell Whereas A wisp of azure Word sanctuary The words and the music The world: week two

Your inattention, please Your quick flip guide Your shameful secret

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