Forever Rumpole
- a hilarious new selection of the very best Rumpole stories by John Mortimer. Horace Rumpole lives alongside Mr Pickwick & Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal comic characters in English fiction. With his curmudgeonly wit, his literary allusions, his disdain for personal ambition & his lack of pomposity, he has, in the words of the Daily Telegraph, 'ascended to the pantheon of literary immortals'. Forever Rumpole contains seven stories originally chosen by the author himself as his favourites, together with a further seven from the later period & the opening chapters of a Rumpole novel that Sir John was working on when he died in 2009. The book also
Includes:: a fascinating introduction by Ann Mallalieu, fellow lawyer & for many years Sir John's colleague in practice.