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Martin Amis
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…
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Charles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare.
Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to…
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How can one writer hurt another where it really counts? This is the problem facing novelist Richard Tull, contemplating the success of his friend and rival Gwyn Barry. Revenger’s tragedy…
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J. G. Ballard
When London is lost beneath the rising tides, unconscious desires rush to the surface in this apocalyptic tale from the author of ‘Crash’ and ‘Empire of the Sun’, reissued here…
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The film-tie in edition to Jonathan Glazer's award-winning new adaptation
THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILM
Amidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love.
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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.
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…
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War Against Cliche is a collection of essays.
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The result is one of Amis’ greatest achievements: a love letter to life that is at once exuberant, meditative and heart-breaking, to be savoured and cherished for many years to…
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Martin Amis provides portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike.
‘A true story, a murder story, a love story and a thriller bursting with humour, sex and often dazzling language’ Independent
When she awakes and realizes she is all right, that Time is starting again, it seems fitting that she should lie on a spindly white trolley in a white room…
Philip Larkin
Unforgettable poems from one of the UK’s best-loved poets, selected by the great Martin Amis.
‘The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years’ Literary Review There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR.
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…
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…
Back in a facsimile edition is Martin Amis’s closet passion project, first published in 1982: a compulsive gamer’s guide to arcades and beating your younger self’s high score.
The story of a life told backwards. Its narrator, Doctor Tod T. Friendly, trapped and hurtling towards a terrible secret, moves out of the blackest sleep to find himself surrounded…
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…
Novelists have noticed that contemporary reality keeps outdoing their imaginations. Yet there is still the obligation to attempt a reading of the present and the very near future. This work…
An ex-circus strongman and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and ‘Einsteinian’ destiny. There is maximum boredom and minimum love-making advised, while a new strain of schizophrenia…
Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent on bon-vivants ensconsed at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in an halluncinatory haze of sex and seduction…
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…
Martin Sneider
Amy Feldman is at the epicenter of a storm as she confronts the indifference of her husband, Josh, whose personal demons and career obsession threaten to shatter their marriage.Fueled by…
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Brian Finney (California State University, USA)
Booker-shortlisted for Time’s Arrow and known for his novels, short stories, essays, reviews, and autobiographical works, Martin Amis is one of the influential of contemporary British writers. This guide to…
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Nick Bentley
Nick Bentley offers a critical analysis to the main themes and literary techniques of Martin Amis, a leading literary figure who has inspired a generation of writers with his distinctive…
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James Diedrick
Understanding Martin Amis is a guide to the novels, short stories and non-fiction by one of Britain’s most highly acclaimed and controversial authors. James Diedrick draws on personal interviews, reviews…
Nicolas Tredell
Nicolas Tredell explores the critical judgements and interpretations generated by Amis’s novels and short stories. It considers key issues such as his use of language, his concern with time, apocalypse…
Richard Bradford
The first biography of one of contemporary British literature’s most gifted and controversial authors.
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Amy Guglielmo
See the world through Paul Cezanne's eyes and be inspired to produce your own masterpieces.
Have you ever wondered exactly what your favorite artists were looking at to make them…
See how iconic artists like Paul Cezanne were influenced by their environments in this beautiful series produced in collaboration with The Met.
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Inspired by global masonry techniques and Hudson Valley history, Martin Puryear's installation for Storm King Art Center opens its oculi onto the museum grounds
This catalog documents the construction and…
This is the first collection of essays ever published on Martin Amis, one of England’s most controversial and critically acclaimed authors. It assembles the ideas of twelve scholars from different…
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Vladimir Nabokov
A novel that studies the moral disintegration of a man whose obsessive desire to possess his step-daughter destroys the lives of those around him.
Dylan Loeb McClain, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell
An incredible collection of images of chess players from the last 130 years, showcasing the unique relationship between chess and culture, featuring world famous actors, artists, politicians and musicians.
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Saul Bellow
The Adventures of Augie March set the stage for Bellow’s Nobel Prize Award in 1976 and established him as a crucial voice that demanded to be heard. Fifty years later…
LB Martins
Understand the coming metaverse-and discover how to look past the hype and harness the future of technology.
Metaversed is an insightful discussion and analysis of the next, rapidly approaching technological…
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…
A sober tale of love and cynicism set against the grim curtain of Stalin’s Russia, House of Meetings is an extraordinary, harrowing, endlessly surprising novel from a literary master.
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…
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…
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…
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 Time’s Arrow and London Fields comes a book that covers politics, literature, and sports while offering felicitous summations of Ronald Reagan, the murder of John Lennon…
It may well be that Keith Nearing is experiencing the summer of a lifetime. He is twenty years old, and his girlfriend Lily, after three months of freedom to experience…