‘Echo IV,’ wrote Echo IV, far away in the calm remoteness of the Rothermere Vulgurian Ethics Wing, ‘is a brilliant new arrival on the literary scene. The Tin Men is its first novel, and critics who have seen it prior to publication . . .’

About the Author

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Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. One of the few English writers to achieve success as both novelist and playwright, his three most recent novels, Headlong, Spies, and Skios, were all nominated for the Booker Prize, while Noises Off (first produced in New York in 1983, revived in 2001, and due to be revived again in 2015) was recently voted Britain’s second favourite play, and Copenhagen won the Tony Award for Best Play. His most recent book, Matchbox Theatre, a collection of thirty short plays, is published by Valancourt Books, as are his first five novels, all long recognized as classics in Great Britain.