Amis
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A Garland for the Laureate – Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday
- £65.00
- 22 poems, most of which were written for the occasion of Betjeman's 75th birthday. Contributors: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Leonard Clark, Charles Causley, Patric Dickinson, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Edward Lowbury, Norman Nicholson, Alan Ross, A. L. Rowse, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender,…
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Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
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Lucky Jim
- £15.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
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Lucky Jim
- £400.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
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Paeans for Peter Porter (multiple SIGNED)
- £350.00
- A celebration for Peter Porter on his seventieth birthday by twenty of his friends, 16 February 1999 edited by his friend Anthony Thwaite. Included are Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Alan Brownjohn, Geoffrey Burgon, Wendy Cope, Allen Curnow, Ian Duhig, D. J. Enright, U. A. Fanthorpe, Barry Humphries, Clive James, David…
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Stanley and the Women
- £12.00
- Just when Stanley Duke thinks it's safe to sink into middle age, his son, Steve, goes insane. As if that weren't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, half-baked, critical or just plain capricious.
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Success
- £140.00
- A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' Observer. Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed…
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Take a girl like you
- £40.00
- A comic novel that follows the progress of twenty-year-old Jenny Bunn, who has moved from her family home in the North of England to a small town not far from London to teach primary school children. Jenny is a 'traditional' Northern working-class girl whose dusky beauty strikes people as being…
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The Alteration
- £25.00
- Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious…
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The Biographer’s Moustache
- £12.00
- Gordon Scott-Thompson, a struggling hack, gets commissioned to write the biography of veteran novelist, Jimmie Fane. It is a task which proves to be fraught with extraordinary and unforeseen difficulties. Fane, an unashamed snob, has many pet hates, including younger men with moustaches and trendy pronuncation. Scott-Thompson, however, is extrememly…
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The Old Devils
- £80.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
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The Old Devils
- £10.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
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The Old Devils (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
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Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- 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 retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the…
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You Can’t Do Both (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Robin Davies is old beyond his years, in hard-won experience at least. This story follows him from his South London adolescence in a genteel pre-war suburban household, through a series of rites of passage involving rebellion, self-discovery, and sex in various forms and approaches.
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A Garland for the Laureate – Poems presented to Sir John Betjeman on his 75th birthday
- £65.00
- 22 poems, most of which were written for the occasion of Betjeman's 75th birthday. Contributors: Dannie Abse, Kingsley Amis, Patricia Beer, Alan Brownjohn, Leonard Clark, Charles Causley, Patric Dickinson, Roy Fuller, Ted Hughes, Elizabeth Jennings, Philip Larkin, Edward Lowbury, Norman Nicholson, Alan Ross, A. L. Rowse, Sacheverell Sitwell, Stephen Spender,…
- Add to basket
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Areté: A Retrospective (Areté Magazine)
- £20.00
- From flap: Over thirteen years, Aret has published six Nobel Prize winners: T S Eliot, William Golding, Boris Pasternak, Orhan Pamuk, Harold Pinter, and Rudyard Kipling. The distinguished roster of contributors includes Milan Kundera, John Updike, Salman Rushdie, Evelyn Waugh, Tom Stoppard, David Hare, Patrick Marber, Christopher Hampton, Martin Amis,…
- Add to basket
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Lucky Jim
- £15.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
- Add to basket
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Lucky Jim
- £400.00
- A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The Times. Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons…
- Add to basket
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Paeans for Peter Porter (multiple SIGNED)
- £350.00
- A celebration for Peter Porter on his seventieth birthday by twenty of his friends, 16 February 1999 edited by his friend Anthony Thwaite. Included are Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Alan Brownjohn, Geoffrey Burgon, Wendy Cope, Allen Curnow, Ian Duhig, D. J. Enright, U. A. Fanthorpe, Barry Humphries, Clive James, David…
- Add to basket
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Stanley and the Women
- £12.00
- Just when Stanley Duke thinks it's safe to sink into middle age, his son, Steve, goes insane. As if that weren't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, half-baked, critical or just plain capricious.
- Add to basket
-
Success
- £140.00
- A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' Observer. Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, acquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed…
- Add to basket
-
Take a girl like you
- £40.00
- A comic novel that follows the progress of twenty-year-old Jenny Bunn, who has moved from her family home in the North of England to a small town not far from London to teach primary school children. Jenny is a 'traditional' Northern working-class girl whose dusky beauty strikes people as being…
- Add to basket
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The Alteration
- £25.00
- Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious…
- Add to basket
-
The Biographer’s Moustache
- £12.00
- Gordon Scott-Thompson, a struggling hack, gets commissioned to write the biography of veteran novelist, Jimmie Fane. It is a task which proves to be fraught with extraordinary and unforeseen difficulties. Fane, an unashamed snob, has many pet hates, including younger men with moustaches and trendy pronuncation. Scott-Thompson, however, is extrememly…
- Add to basket
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The Old Devils
- £80.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
- Add to basket
-
The Old Devils
- £10.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
- Add to basket
-
The Old Devils (SIGNED)
- £80.00
- "The Old Devils" is the most outrageously funny Amis novel.
- Add to basket
-
Time’s Arrow, or The Nature of the Offence (SIGNED)
- £200.00
- 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 retirement to the hustle of New York, and then the…
- Add to basket
-
You Can’t Do Both (SIGNED)
- £35.00
- Robin Davies is old beyond his years, in hard-won experience at least. This story follows him from his South London adolescence in a genteel pre-war suburban household, through a series of rites of passage involving rebellion, self-discovery, and sex in various forms and approaches.
- Add to basket