Forever Rumpole - a hilarious new selection of the very best Rumpole stories by John Mortimer
Horace Rumpole lives alongside Mr Pickwick and Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal comic characters in English fiction. With his curmudgeonly wit, his literary allusions, his disdain for personal ambition and 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 and 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 and for many years Sir John''s colleague in practice.
''Rumpole, like Jeeves and Sherlock Holmes, is immortal'' P. D James, Mail on Sunday
''I thank heaven for small mercies. The first of these is Ru
