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Martin Amis
In his highly anticipated first novel in seven years, the man the New York Times calls the best American writer England has ever produced delivers a brilliant and unsettling novel…
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Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful young criminal - is going about his morning duties in a London prison when he learns that he has just…
A collection of short stories, including Heavy Water ; Straight Fiction ; Career Moves ; The Janitor on Mars ; Let Me Count the Times ; and others.
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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…
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…
As a journalist, critic, and novelist, Martin Amis has always turned his keen intellect and unrivaled prose loose on an astonishing range of topics-politics, sports, celebrity, America, and, of course…
Martin Amis has approached America from many arresting angles and interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion makers, leaders and crackpots with characteristic discernment and wit. This book includes a gallery…
The son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis, the author explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kingsley’s life. Experience deconstructs the changing…
The sequel to the author’s memoir ‘Experience’ describes the role of communism in mid-20th-century thought and its influence on his own family as he reflects on Stalin, his impact on…
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…
Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Don DeLillo, Elmore Leonard, Michael Crichton, Thomas Harris -…
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…
Under Martin Amis’s expert guidance, Night Train escalates from a captivating whodunit into a dazzling inquest into perpetrators and punishers, pattern and paranoia, innocence and evil.
An autobiographical novel that’s a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die-from the Mick Jagger of literature … Amis is…
From the author of London Fields and Time’s Arrow comes the story of Richard Tull, a novelist whose literary criticism is the only work to actually see publication. His life…
Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she…
Closed presents a typology of closed shop fronts and businesses across Kent, photographed over a three-year period. Collectively, the pictures represent a snapshot of the changing face of Britain's high…
Addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, this work…
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.
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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…
Cursed with premonitions since childhood, Nicola foresees her own murder, and sets out to make the two most likely suspects pay in advance for what one of them is going…
A novel that seems to have been written with the term ‘tour de force’ in mind … Amis’s radical rethinking of time … brings the abomination of the Holocaust home…
TATE Britain Exhibition 28 September 2023 - 14 January 2024 Sarah Lucas is an internationally celebrated artist known for the provocative use of materials and imagery in her work. Incorporating…
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In this wildly ambitious and funny novel, one of England’s brilliant young writers relates two murders in the making. The first is the self-orchestrated extinction of Nicola Six. The second…
Bitingly funny, full of wit and pathos, The Pregnant Widow is a trenchant portrait of young lives being carried away on a sea of change.
Alkodimi Khaled
Capitalist satire is a commonly recurring issue in western texts, however, little attention is paid to the genre as an important aspect of modern Arabic fiction. This study highlights the…
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John A. Dern
Dern (English, Penn State U.), examining works by novelist Amis as London Fields, The Rachel Papers, Other People, Einstein’s Monsters, and six others, discusses the postmodern concerns of Amis about…
The first of its kind, investigating the British landscape as a site of artistic inspiration, action and a heartland for ideas of freedom, mysticism, experimentation and rebellion. Contributions from campaigners…
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A a Milne
This collection of 35 short poems was first published in 1927, and is a sequel to When We Were Very Young, which was the first anthology of verse dealing with…
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Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 1, University of Munster, language: English, abstract: A literary text not only exploits and reallocates cultural…
Amy C Rea
This title introduces readers to the Aston Martin DB9, covering its history, unique features, and defining characteristics. This title features informative sidebars, detailed infographics, vivid photos, and a glossary.
Garrin Martin Miles Amies
Michael is a single young man living on the outskirts of London, working from home he has become a bit of a loner and tends to keep to himself. His…
Amy Hayes
Learn about the celebrations of Martin Luther King Jr. Day! –Provided by publisher.
Amy B Rogers
Martin Luther King Jr. is an iconic figure of the civil rights movement. His influence during the 1950s and 1960s led to key moments that defined the era, including impassioned…
Amy Martin
Book 1 of the In Your Dreams series. Sixteen-year-old Zara Zip McKee lives for three things: basketball, books, and bailing out of tiny Titusville, Illinois, where the junior high and…
After undergoing treatment for his bizarre sleeping disorder, Zara Zip McKee’s boyfriend Kieran Lanier is left with an unusual side effect-amnesia. While his memory loss is supposed to be temporary…
This book presents a renewed consideration of women's poetry in ancient Greek literature by analysing the works attributed to female poets from the Hellenistic era. Initiated by Sappho, this tradition…
A vibrant, informative guide to the unexpected nature in Dallas-Fort Worth and the surrounding area.
Amy C. Rea
Christopher Hitchens
A compendium of never-before-collected quotations from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Christopher Hitchens on hundreds of subjects
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