Lionel Asbo - State of England (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Lionel Asbo - State of England (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Meanwhile, Des desires nothing more than books, a girl to love and to steer clear Uncle Li's psychotic pitbulls, Joe and Jeff. 'One of Amis's funniest novels' New Yorker'A book that looks at us, laughs at us, looks at us harder, closer, and laughs at us harder and still more savagely'

House of Meetings (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

'The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years' Literary Review There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the

Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Sex without Madonna, expulsion from school, a Stones gig that should have been gagged, on set with Robocop or on court with Gabriela Sabatini, this is Martin Amis at

Lionel Aspo - Martin Amis

Lionel Aspo (pověstný hrubián a profesionální kriminálník, který jako zázrakem zbohatne díky výhře v loterii) a Desmond Pepperdine (osiřelý synovec, o něhož se Lionel dost nevybíravě stará) jsou hlavními postavami románu, v němž nás Martin Amis zavádí na zanedbané

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

Moronic Inferno - And Other Visits to America (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by

Rub of Time - Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump. Essays and Reportage, 1994-2016 (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction - his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly funny

Success (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Gregory leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests. His foster brother, Terry, has to make do with the leavings as he trawls through life in a miasma of grief. But roles are reversed with both lives dramatically

Night Train (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Detective Hoolihan, a policewoman, a police in cop parlance, begins to investigate the death of Jennifer. The evidence swings towards suicide - the gun in her hand, the suicide note, the secret history of depression and drug addiction, and then swings away; could be suicide administer three and why

Zone of Interest (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. As Thomsen and Doll's wife pursue their passion - the gears of Nazi Germany's Final Solution grinding around them - Doll is riven by

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

Dead Babies (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Six friends are determined to escape for a debauched weekend in the countryBlitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the six twenty-something friends ensconced at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and

Second Plane - September 11, 2001-2007 (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

A collection of short stories of the author including 'In the Place of the End' and 'The Last Days of Muhammad Atta', and essays and reviews

Carhullan Army (Hall Sarah (Author))(Paperback / softback)

Winner of the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize England is in a state of environmental and economic crisis. A woman known as 'Sister' leaves her oppressive marriage to join an isolated group of women in a remote northern farm at Carhullan, where she intends to become a rebel

Einstein's Monsters (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: ''Einstein's Monsters' refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully human, not for

Rachel Papers (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles

Information (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Once close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition. While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic odd jobs, Barry's atrocious attempts at novels have brought him untold

Philip Larkin Poems - Selected by Martin Amis (Larkin Philip)(Paperback / softback)

For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. how many poets make us laugh - or, in that curious phrase, 'laugh out loud' (as if there's another way of doing it)? Larkin, often, is more than memorable: he is instantly unforgettable.' - Martin

Lunch with the FT - 52 Classic Interviews(Paperback / softback)

From Angela Merkel to Sean 'P Diddy' Combs, Martin Amis to one of the Arab world's most notorious sons, this book brings you right to the table to decide what you think of or world's most powerful

Shortest History of England (Hawes James)(Paperback / softback)

Historical Map of England and Wales(Paperback / softback)

Money (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food. 'Terribly, terminally funny: laughter in the dark, if ever I heard it'

Time's Arrow (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Trapped in his body from grave to cradle, Friendly's consciousness can only watch as he struggles to make sense of the good doctor's most ambitious project yet - the final solution. SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'Amis's most daring and ambitious novel' Daily

Koba The Dread (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the