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Travels with a Typewriter: A Reporter at Large is a hugely entertaining collection of Michael Frayn's travel writing from the sixties and seventies, including pieces on Germany, Cuba, Israel, Japan and Russia.

About the Author

Michael Frayn was born in London in 1933 and began his career as a journalist on the Guardian and the Observer. His novels include Towards the End of the Morning, The Trick of It, and Landing on the Sun. Headlong (1999) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, while his most recent novel, Spies, won the Whitbread Novel Award. His fifteen plays range from Noises Off to Copenhagen and most recently, Afterlife.