Books by Martin Amis

London Fields is a gripping novel by renowned author Martin Amis. Published by Vintage Publishing in 1999, this book is a standout in its genre. London Fields is a darkly humorous, postmodern noir that intertwines the lives of a terminally ill American scoundrel, a psychic femme fatale, and a hapless, endearing British bloke. Amis's razor-sharp prose and keen observations of the human condition make this a must-read. The narrative is as sprawling and chaotic as the city it's named after, yet every detail is meticulously crafted. Martin Amis's London Fields is a testament to his narrative prowess and his ability to create complex, flawed, and deeply human characters. The book is a publication of Vintage Publishing, a publisher known for its commitment to quality literature. This book is an unforgettable journey into the dark heart of London and the even darker hearts of its inhabitants. It's a book that stays with you long after you've turned the last page.

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 scoreIn this offbeat book, introduced by Stephen Spielberg, acclaimed author Martin Amis explores how 1980s video games took a generation by storm.

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 eponymous 'Rachel Papers'.

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 come. *A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE TIMES, NEW STATESMAN, IRISH TIMES and SPECTATOR* 'The Mick Jagger of literature ...

A Sunday Times / Times Literary Supplement Book of the YearOf 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.

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 book that looks at us, laughs at us, looks at us harder, closer, and laughs at us harder and still more savagely' Observer

It was summer 1970 - a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on the sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, and the boys are going on acting like boys, and Keith Nearing is struggling to twist feminism and the rise of women towards his own ends.

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. A nearby voice tells she is on her own now and to be good. Was she not good before? This story unfolds a metaphysical thriller where jealously guarded secrets jostle with startling insights.

When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. his fifteen-year-old daughter, Victoria, the victim of a filmed 'intrusion' which rivets the world - because she is the future Queen of England, and her father, Henry IX, is its King.

Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pages ever written about Stalin: Koba the Dread, Iosif the Terrible.

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, the secret history of depression and drug addiction, and then swings away; could be suicide administer three and why does the autopsy reveal no sign of drug abuse?

In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted. in 'Career Move', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, while poets are flown first-class to Los Angeles; And in 'The Coincidence of the Arts' an English baronet becomes entangled with an African-American chess hustler.