Difficulties With Girls (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Difficulties With Girls (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospital. They have reached a certain level of maturity, or so they

Memoirs (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent

Kingsley Amis: Collected Poems

'One of the very best of our poets' Anthony PowellKingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost love, drink, money, God (seen as indifferent or malign), and old age. Collected Poems, arranged

One Fat Englishman (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to seduce every woman he encounters. But his American hosts seem made of sterner

Experience (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life, including the final one of his

Riverside Villas Murder (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the

Alteration (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious to

Complete Stories (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Includes a collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. In this book, the stories reveal the scope of his imagination and the warmth beneath his acerbic humour, and they all share the unmistakable

Ending Up (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George

Lucky Jim (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's,

New Maps of Hell (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of essays that introduces readers to the wonders and value of science fiction

King's English (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, the author provides advice about the linguistic blunders that lie in wait for us, from danglers and four-letter words to jargon and even Welsh

Green Man (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic

Room At The Top (Braine John)(Paperback / softback)

The Angry Young Men movement, featuring such stars as Kingsley Amis, is perfectly illustrated through the iconic figure of Joe Lampton. The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the petty bureaucracy of local government into the unfamiliar world of inherited wealth, fast cars and

Old Devils (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife,

Take A Girl Like You (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This novel about a northern girl who moves south, wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the

That Uncertain Feeling (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams, who is married to a member of the local

Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis (Cope Wendy)(Paperback / softback)

'Offers parodies of William Wordsworth, T.S. Eliot, and Emily Dickinson, and humorous sonnets, haiku, and love

Folks That Live On The Hill (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

Harry Caldecote is a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordsworth, when his son's lesbian lodger is beaten up by her girlfriend. He endures misplaced seductions just to keep the

I Want It Now (Amis Kingsley)(Paperback / softback)

The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents. But as he comes closer to his prize other questions present

Parenting a Child with Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties (Hughes Dan)(Paperback / softback)

Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney (Johnson Paul)(Paperback)

Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as 'a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind.' Now the celebrated journalist and historian offers Creators, a companion volume of essays that examines a host of outstanding and prolific creative spirits. Here are

Lights Came on for Marcia Duncan (Cavendish Lynn)(Paperback / softback)

A young girl with learning difficulties and an alcoholic mother coping with pregnancy and motherhood in a run-down council

Christmas with the Bomb Girls (Styles Daisy)(Paperback / softback)