British life since World War II is illuminated through the lives and fortunes of Leslie Titmuss and the people of the village of Rapstone Fanner

Leslie Titmuss is the anti-hero of "Paradise Postponed", portrayed on screen by David Threlfall. In this novel, John Mortimer continues the rise of the complaisant Titmuss, now married to a second unpleasant wife.

In the final installment of the postWorld War II trilogy that began with the bestselling Paradise Postponed, the merciless MP Leslie Titmuss has been deposed and replaced by Terry Flitton, a centriststyle politician familiar to both sides of the Atlantic. Reprint.

The acclaimed creator of Rumpole of the Bailey gives us a hugely entertaining chronicle of English life since World War II in these two novels published together for the first time. Both dramatized on the popular PBS Masterpiece Theater series, these stories present a brilliant commentary on the England of yesterday and today.