Rumpole of the Bailey
by John Mortimer (Penguin, 1978); audiobook read by Robert Hardy (Bolinda, 2014)
Based on the TV series, this book is as much about the tribulations as the trials of Horace Rumpole, an eccentric and oft-thwarted, poetry-quoting English barrister. Rumpole’s wins may be pyrrhic at best, but are humorously bolstered by his free-flowing, sardonic ruminations.