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An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised in a 2020 epidemic; a virulent new strain of sc
Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retireme
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ANDREW O'HAGAN John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. 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, tobac
Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll. As Thomsen and Dolls wife pursue their passion the gears of
'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The Times Like a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming Mr Wrong... Martin Amis sustains an unnervingl
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE LOWDON Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare. Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed
John Self is a consumer extraordinaire. 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 foo
A phenomenal writer Sunday Times An intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath. Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory betw
Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samsons dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black Cross pub and into a murder story ju
'Utterly compelling' Guardian Life...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead. So begins a love letter to life, a resuscitation of sorts, encountering vibrant ch
The prize-winning autobiography of the late, great Martin Amis. Now with an introduction from Zadie Smith. 'Part memoir, part confessional, Experience is a gentle coming to terms about the stuff of life' Guardian INTRODUCED BY ZADIE SMITH In this
She knows she will be murdered. She believes she has chosen the man who will do it. Samson Young arrives in 1980s London ill, broke, and determined to write one last novel. In a decaying city thick with corruption and appetite, he meets Nicola Six, a woma
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOOD 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, Barrys atrocious attempts at nov
Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience . It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal
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 Amiss heroes Nabokov, Bellow
Martin Amis was one of the pre-eminent novelist-critics of his generation. This remarkable collection of essays and reviews spans over three decades of his literary career. The War Against Cliché is a selection of his reviews and essays. It contains piece
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - One of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. "Superb memoir...a moving account of [Amis's] coming of age as an artist and a
A Best Book of the Year: Time , NPR, The Village Voice , The Miami Herald , Financial Times , Minneapolis Star Tribune , BookRiot "Powerful and electric. . . . A book that may stand for years as the triumph of his career." --NPR "This is a
A haunting, gothic love triangle set in postwar Moscow and an Arctic gulag, where forbidden passion and betrayal shape destinies and echo across decades. House of Meetings is a gothic love story steeped in violence. In 1946 Moscow, amid the palpable threa
Martin Amis's first novel, The Rachel Papers , tells the story of Charles Highway and his relationship with his girlfriend in the year before going to university--with a new introduction by Paul Murray. Charles Highway, a bright, egotistical Oxford st
Named one of Time 's 100 best novels in the English language, Money is "savagely hilarious. It risks, it boils with energy . . . it even manages to shock" ( The Washington Post ). Including a new introduction by Lorrie Moore, author of I Am
A blistering blend of history and political reckoning, Koba the Dread is Martin Amis's searing indictment of Stalinist terror and the Western intellectuals who turned a blind eye. A deft and deeply felt combination of history, memoir, and political cr