Kingsley Amis Best Novels - April 2024

The Green Man (New York Review Books Classics)

• ASIN: B008LNSKL4
• ASIN: B008LNSKL4
• Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

Lucky Jim (New York Review Books Classics)

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that “there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.” Kingsley Amis’s scabrous debut leads the reader through a gallery of emphatically English bores, cranks, frauds, and neurotics with whom Dixon must contend in one way or another in ord... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1590175751
• ASIN: 1590175751
• ISBN: 9781590175750
• Brand: New York Review of Books
• Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

Ending Up (NYRB Classics)

Ending Up is a grimly hilarious dance of death, full of bickering, bitching, backstabbing, drinking (of course), and idiocy of all sorts. It is a book about dying people and about a dying England, clinging to its memories of greatness as it succumbs to terminal decay.  Everyone wants a comfortable place to die, and Kingsley Amis’s characters have found it in Tuppeny-happeny Cottage, where assorted septuagenarians have come together to see one another out the door of life. There’s grotesque Adela, whose sole passion is her cheapness; her brother Brigadier Bernard Bastable, always strategiz... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1590177592
• ASIN: 1590177592
• ISBN: 1590177592
• Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

Experience: A Memoir

Martin Amis is one of the most gifted and innovative writers of our time. With Experience, he discloses a private life every bit as unique and fascinating as his bestselling novels. The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis explores his relationship with this father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley's life. He also examines the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who was abducted and murdered by one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers. Experience also deconstructs the changing literary scene, including Amis' portraits of Saul Bellow, Salm... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0375726837
• ASIN: 0375726837
• ISBN: 0375726837
• Manufacturer: Vintage

Colonel Sun: A James Bond Novel

The first ever Bond continuation, originally published by Jonathan Cape in 1968, now finally back in print and published to coincide with the forthcoming Bond film Spectre. Lunch at Scott's, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on his chief M, convalescing in his Regency house in Berkshire -- the life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency... until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped and his house staff savagely murdered. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island where the glacial, malign Colonel Sun Liang-tan of... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1784871451
• ASIN: 1784871451
• ISBN: 1784871451
• Brand: imusti
• Manufacturer: Vintage Classics

Trigger Mortis: With Original Material by Ian Fleming (James Bond Novels (Paperback))

James Bond, the world’s most famous spy, returns to his 1950s heyday in this thriller from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz, incorporating never-before-published material from 007’s creator, Ian Fleming.James Bond won his battle with criminal mastermind Auric Goldfinger, but a whole new war is about to begin. With glamorous Pussy Galore by his side—and in his bed—Bond arrives home from America to the news that SMERSH, the deadly Soviet counterintelligence agency, plans to sabotage an international Grand Prix. He must play a high-speed game of cat and mouse on the trac... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00U1ZV63Y
• ASIN: B00U1ZV63Y
• Manufacturer: Harper

The Alteration (New York Review Books Classics)

• ASIN: B008LNSV22
• ASIN: B008LNSV22
• Manufacturer: NYRB Classics

Losing Venice: A Novel

Short-listed for the 2019 People's Book Prize"A remarkable novel... only someone who has lived in Venice could write with such vivid detail, clarity and affection about her charms and annoyances."JoAnn Loctov, Dream of VeniceSurrounded by beauty, can you learn to live beautifully? Travel marketing executive Mark Vandermar leads an itinerant life. Elsewhere is where he calls home, so it's no surprise when he's called to Venice to help craft the Venice Tourism Council's new campaign to attract skittish post-September 11 American tourism dollars. As he gets to know Venice's colorful campos and c... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1732195684
• ASIN: 1732195684
• ISBN: 1732195684
• Manufacturer: Rogue Dog Press

Tuttle in the Balance: A Novel

Meet Supreme Court Justice Ed Tuttle. Like many men his age, Ed Tuttle is having a mid-life crisis. He is bored with his job, uncertain about his faith, and unable to find love in the wake of divorce. Unlike most other men his age, however, Ed Tuttle is a justice on the United States Supreme Court. As the swing vote in one of the most contentious terms in recent memory, Justice Tuttle holds the future of the nation in his hands, a tall order for someone who can barely make it through a weekend without making a monumental life mistake. In this hilarious and poignant debut novel, Jay Wexler -- l... [Read More]

• ASIN: B015RPC18G
• ASIN: B015RPC18G
• Manufacturer: Ankerwycke

The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Vintage Crime / Black Lizard Original)

The biggest collection of Sherlock Holmes stories ever assembled! Arguably no other character in history has been so enduringly popular as Sherlock Holmes. Ever since his first appearance, in Arthur Conan Doyle’s 1887 novella A Study in Scarlet, readers have loved reading about him almost as much as writers have loved writing about him. Here, Otto Penzler collects eighty-three wonderful stories about Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson, published over a span of more than a hundred years. Featuring pitch-perfect cases by acclaimed modern-day Sherlockians Leslie S. Klinger, Laurie R. King, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1101872616
• ASIN: 1101872616
• ISBN: 1101872616
• Brand: Vintage Books
• Manufacturer: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

The Rub of Time

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. As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times, reviewing a previous collection, 'Amis is as talented a journalist as he is a novelist, but these essays all manifest an unusual extra quality, one that is not unlike friendship. He makes an effort; he makes readers feel that they are the only person there.' The essays in The Rub of Time range from superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov, Bellow and Larkin to brilliantly fun... [Read More]

• ASIN: 1787330141
• ASIN: 1787330141
• ISBN: 1787330141
• Manufacturer: Jonathan Cape Ltd

The Life of Kingsley Amis

The eagerly-awaited authorized biography of Kingsley Amis.In this, the authorized biography, Zachary Leader argues that Kingsley Amis was not only the finest comic novelist of his generation, but the dominant figure of post-war British writing.Drawing not only on interviews with a range of Amis’s friends, relatives, fellow writers, students and colleagues, many of them never before consulted, but also on almost a thousand previously unpublished letters, Leader’s biography will for the first time give a full picture of Amis’s childhood, school-days, life as a teacher, critic, polemicist, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0099428423
• ASIN: 0099428423
• ISBN: 9780099428428
• Manufacturer: Vintage Books

I Want It Now. Kingsley Amis

Books : I Want It Now (Penguin Modern Classics)

• UPC: 844772927
• Rating: 5.0

Take a Girl Like You. Kingsley Amis

Books : Take A Girl Like You (Penguin Modern Classics)

• UPC: 155139581
• Rating: 2.667

Colonel Sun : A James Bond Adventure

The first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming in 1964, this classic thriller follows James Bond on a mission to a small Aegean island to track down M's kidnappers--the malign Colonel

• UPC: 713174364
• Rating: 2.667

Girl, 20

Kingsley Amis, along with being the funniest English writer of his generation was a great chronicler of the fads and absurdities of his age, and Girl, 20 is a delightfully incisive dissection of the flower-power

• UPC: 23076318
• Rating: 3.0

The Old Devils

Age has done everything except mellow the characters in Kingsley Amis's The Old Devils, which turns its humane and ironic gaze on a group of Welsh married couples who have been spending their golden years--when

• UPC: 19695156
• Rating: 2.667

Take a Girl Like You

"Kingsley Amis's most ambitious reckoning with his central theme--the degradation of modern life--Take a Girl Like You also introduces one of the rare unqualified good guys in Amis's rogue-ridden world: Jenny Bunn, a girl from

• UPC: 305879255
• Rating: 2.667

The Alteration

Originally published: Great Britain: Jonathan Cape,

• UPC: 21121074
• Rating: 3.667

The English Novel of History and Society, 1940 80: Richard Hughes, Henry Green, Anthony Powell, Angus Wilson, Kingsley Amis, V. S. Naipaul

New

• UPC: 52581281

Bel-Ami (Best Navigation, Active TOC)(Prometheus Classics) - eBook

This book contains now several HTML tables of contents that will make reading a real pleasure! The story chronicles journalist Georges Duroy's corrupt rise to power from a poor ex-NCO to one of the most

• UPC: 931085743

Ending Up

"Ending Up is a grotesque and memorable dance of death, full of bickering, bitching, backstabbing, drinking (of course), and idiocy of all sorts. It is a book about dying people and about a dying England,

• UPC: 38407920
• Rating: 4.0