Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford describing the pangs of a pre-war adolescence in South London and on through his rites of passage to adulthood. 'You Can't do Both' is classic Amis - funny, tender, insightful - and strongly autobiographical.
Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford describing the pangs of a pre-war adoles...
Stanley Duke thinks it is safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked or just plain capricious. As they gnaw away at his composure, he wonders whether insanity is not something with which women are intimately acquainted.
Stanley Duke thinks it is safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sid...
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, Rhiannon.
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 ...
"Endlessly entertaining-Good, rollicking stuff, and a delight to read -- Sir Kingsley Amis is surely one of the funniest men alive." --Auberon Waugh, "Sunday Telegraph" 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 foes). From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a successful novelist, "Memoirs "offers extraordinary insights into a unique literary life.
"Endlessly entertaining-Good, rollicking stuff, and a delight to read -- Sir Kingsley Amis is surely one of the funniest men alive." --Auberon Waugh, ...
"Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities -- including superb sexual comedy." --"Sunday Times" " " Like all good medieval coaching inns, the Green Man in Fareham, Hertfordshire, boasts a resident, if retired, ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to have killed his wife. The landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malign Underhill. Led by curiosity and an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington uncovers the key to Underhill's satanic secrets. And...
"Contains all the best and familiar Amis qualities -- including superb sexual comedy." --"Sunday Times" " " Like all good medieval coachi...
A comic masterpiece by one of Britain's best-loved writers. Of all the choristers at the Cathedral Basilica of St George, he is the angel -- the one whose voice could only have been made in heaven. In every other respect Hubert is utterly ordinary: a nice, rather timid ten-year-old boy. The year is 1976, but by bold Amisian sleight-of-hand, the England of "The Alteration"""has become a disconcerting, quasi-medieval land in the Age of Faith. And here a wickedly brilliant Swiftian satire takes shape. It's modest proposal? Well, it stands to reason that Hubert's glorious voice must be...
A comic masterpiece by one of Britain's best-loved writers. Of all the choristers at the Cathedral Basilica of St George, he is the angel -- th...
A crime, truly murderous, is committed by an unknown and almost unidentifiable assailant. Only Peter Furneaux begins to guess at the truth - a dangerous truth - which leads him to the river bank by moonlight.
A crime, truly murderous, is committed by an unknown and almost unidentifiable assailant. Only Peter Furneaux begins to guess at the truth - a dangero...
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 in the company of braying aristocrats, Greek shipping magnates and American dandies.
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 preoccupie...
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 battle of the sexes and classes in Britain.
Twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. ...
