Success (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rachel Papers (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

As Charles's twentieth birthday - and the Oxford entrance exams - loom, his plans for seducing Rachel will draw him into a private collection of obsessional notes and observations: the eponymous 'Rachel

London Fields (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

'A true story, a murder story, a love story and a thriller bursting with humour, sex and often dazzling language'

Pregnant Widow (Amis Martin)(Paperback / softback)

Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to twist the seventies's emerging feminism towards his own

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

Brilliant Accounting - Everything you need to know to manage the success of your accounts (Quinn 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'

Lolita (Nabokov Vladimir)(Paperback / softback)

'Lolita is comedy, subversive yet divine' Martin Amis, ObserverPoet and pervert, Humbert Humbert becomes obsessed by twelve-year-old Lolita and seeks to possess her, first carnally and then artistically, 'to fix once for all the perilous magic of nymphets'. Is he in love or insane? A tortured soul

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

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

Šíp času - Martin Amis

Amisova kniha, která byla v roce 1991 navržena na Bookerovu cenu, je patrně jedním z prozaicky nejlépe zpracovaných námětů, které odhalují zvrácenou logiku nacistické morálky. Hlavní postavou příběhu je doktor Tod T. Friendly, muž dvou tváří a dvou životních příběhů,