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'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.' ~John Mortimer
John Mortimer was an English barrister and writer. He penned novels, autobiographical works, and plays for the stage.
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'The only rule I have found to have any validity in writing is not to bore yourself.' ~John Mortimer
John Mortimer was an English barrister and writer. He penned novels, autobiographical works, and plays for the stage.
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βWhat obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.β β John Mortimer
Books of John Mortimer in order
Sir John Mortimer was an English lawyer and author who was best known for his Rumpole series of books. As a young man he had hopes of being an actor and then a writer, but his father encouraged him to get into the law. During his law career he worked in defense of many high profile obscenity cases including defending Gay News editor on charges of blasphemous libel and Virgin Records over their use of the work βbollocksβ for the famous Sex Pistols album.
Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole of the Bailey (1978) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpoleβs Return (1980) β Buy on Amazon!
The Trials of Rumpole (1981) β Buy on Amazon!
Regina V. Rumpole (1981) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole for the Defence (1982) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole and the Golden Thread (1983) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole for the Prosecution (1986) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole's Last Case (1988) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole and the Age of Miracles (1989) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole and the Age for Retirement (1989) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole a La Carte (1991) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole on Trial (1992) β Buy on Amazon!
The Best of Rumpole (1993) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole and the Younger Generation (1995) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole and the Angel of Death (1995) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole Rests His Case (2002) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole and the Primrose Path (2003) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders (2004) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole and the Reign of Terror (2006) β Buy on Amazon!
The Anti-Social Behaviour of Horace Rumpole / Rumpole Misbehaves (2007) β Buy on Amazon!
Rumpole at Christmas / A Rumpole Christmas (2009) β Buy on Amazon!
Forever Rumpole (2011) β Buy on Amazon!
Rapstone Chronicles
Paradise Postponed (1985) β Buy on Amazon!
Titmuss Regained (1990) β Buy on Amazon!
The Sound of Trumpets (1998) β Buy on Amazon!
Standalone Novels
Charade (1947) β Buy on Amazon!
Like Men Betrayed (1953) β Buy on Amazon!
The Narrowing Stream (1954) β Buy on Amazon!
Summer's Lease (1985) β Buy on Amazon!
Dunster (1992) β Buy on Amazon!
Felix In The Underworld (1996) β Buy on Amazon!
Quite Honestly (2005) β Buy on Amazon!
Chapbooks
The Scales of Justice (2005) β Buy on Amazon!
Plays
A Voyage Round My Father. John Mortimer (1971) β Buy on Amazon!
Non-Fiction
The Fear Of Heaven (1978) β Buy on Amazon!
Clinging to the Wreckage (1982) β Buy on Amazon!
Character Parts (1986) β Buy on Amazon!
The Oxford Book of Villains (1992) β Buy on Amazon!
Murderers and Other Friends (1994) β Buy on Amazon!
The Summer of a Dormouse (2000) β Buy on Amazon!
Where There's a Will (2003) β Buy on Amazon!
Zerah Colburn - Spirit of Darkness (2005) β Buy on Amazon!
In Other Words (2008) β Buy on Amazon!
Anthologies
Great Law and Order Stories (1990) β Buy on Amazon!
Death Cruise: Crime Stories on the Open Seas (1999) β Buy on Amazon!
Fanfare: Fourteen Stories on a Musical Theme (1999) β Buy on Amazon!
Murder Most Merry (2002) β Buy on Amazon!
Midsummer Nights (2009) β Buy on Amazon!
A Christmas Anthology (2011) β Buy on Amazon!
#127: Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965, dir. by Otto Preminger)
19: Video Store Day (from a Scarecrow Mystery Box)
Geraldine McEwan in John Mortimer's play 'Mill Hill', an episode of BBC's Thirty-Minute Theatre from 1972.
The play also stars Peter Cook and it's hilarious - it made my mother choke on her hot water and lemon. Someone uploaded it to YouTube so check it out.
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The Mortimers did not hide their anger behind pseudonyms but took out advertisements on half a dozen newspapers to damn the native police.
To the Officer in Command of the Party of Native Police, who shot and wounded some Blacks on the Station of Manumbar, on Sunday, the 10th instant.
SIR,βIf in future you should take a fancy to bring your troopers upon the Station of Manumbar on a sporting excursion we shall feel obliged if you would either bag or bury the game you shoot, as it is far from pleasant for us to have the decomposing remains of four or five blackfellows laying unburied within a mile or two of our head station. If you will do neither please be kind enough to remove the corpses from waterholes near the head station from which we sometimes use water for culinary purposes. As most of the blacks you left dead on our run were feeble old men, some of them apparently not less than eighty years of age, will you please to inform us whether these hoary sinners are the parties chiefly engaged in spearing bullocks and "cramming monkeys," &c.; or whether you just shoot them because the younger ones are too nimble for you. Besides the four or five you left dead on our run, you have wounded two of our station blacks, who have been in our employment during lambing, washing, and shearing, and all other busy times for the last eight or nine years, and we have never known either of them to have been charged with a crime of any kind. One of them came into the station with a bullet wound through one of his thighs, another through one of his arms, and another through one of his hands; the other had a bullet wound through one of his arms. These blacks, being in our employment, very naturally look to us for protection from such outraged, and we are of opinion that when you shoot and wound blacks in such an indiscriminate manner, you exceed your commission, and we publish this that those who employ and pay you may have some knowledge of the way in which you perform your services.
We have, &c.,
J. & A. MORTIMER.
"Killing for Country: A Family History" - David Marr
The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.
- John Mortimer, barrister and creator of the Rumpole series
Leo McKern as Rumpole
Rumpole Of The Bailey