Rumpole of the Bailey (book series) years after the 1993 anthology. (The book also contains the first few pages written by Mortimer for a new story titled "Rumpole and the Brave New World" that he was working on at the time of his death and thus was incomplete.) A collection of seven Christmas-themed short stories – some first published in US or UK magazines Rumpole of the Bailey (book series) Rumpole of the Bailey is a series of book created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer based on the television series "Rumpole of the Bailey". Mortimer adapted his television scripts into a
Paul Bailey (British writer) Visiting Lecturer in English Literature at the North Dakota State University (1977–79). He was awarded the E. M. Forster Award in 1974 and in 1978 he won the George Orwell Prize for his essay "The Limitations of Despair", first published in "The Listener" magazine. Bailey was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999. Paul Bailey's novels include "At The Jerusalem" (1967), which is set in an old people's home, and which won a Somerset Maugham Award and an Arts Council Writers' Award; "Peter Smart's Confessions" (1977) and "Gabriel's Lament" (1986), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize