Titan Books, 2006. — 112 p. — ISBN: 1845761758; ISBN13: 9781845761752. The legend continues! Stand by for more adventures with the world's greatest secret agent, as his most thrilling missions are collected for the first time ever! When James Bond's boss, the enigmatic M, is kidnapped in Greece, Bond must race to his rescue—with only some local fishermen to help! But 007...
Penguin Classics, 2011. — 528 p. — ISBN: 0141194197; ISBN13: 9780141194196. Kingsley Amis wrote short stories throughout his five decades as a published novelist, some of them character or situation sketches which stand next to the novels, others daring experimentations with genre. For the first time these stories are collected in one volume - the literary detective piece 'Mr...
NYRB Classics, 2015. — 544 p. — ISBN: 1590178254; ISBN13: 9781590178256. When he published his first novel, Lucky Jim, in which his misbehaving hero wreaks havoc with the starchy protocols of academic life, Kingsley Amis emerged as a bad boy of British letters. Later he became famous as another kind of bad boy, an inveterate boozer, a red-faced scourge of political correctness....
Penguin Classics, 2011. — 114 p. — ISBN: 0141194235; ISBN13: 9780141194233. At Tuppenny-hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies...
NYRB Classics, 2013. — 253 p. — ISBN: 1590176634; ISBN13: 9781590176634. 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 phase of the 1960s. Amis’s antihero, Sir Roy Vandervane, a conductor and composer who bears...
Penguin Classics, 2012. — 231 p. — ISBN: 0141194251; ISBN13: 9780141194257. The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents in the company of braying aristocrats, Greek shipping magnates,...
Jake's Thing is a satirical novel written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1978 by Hutchinson, and shortlisted for the Booker Prize that year. The novel follows the life of Jacques 'Jake' Richardson, a fifty-nine-year-old Oxford don who struggles to overcome the loss of his 'libido'. The book employs characteristic Amis wit and cutting social commentary such as Jake's...
Penguin Books, 1980. — 286 p. — ISBN: 0140050965; ISBN13: 9780140050967. Nearing sixty, Jake goes in pursuit of his lost libido. But is sex really worth it? As liberationists abuse him; a hostess bores him into bed; and even his wife starts acting oddly, Jake seriously begins to wonder.
Lucky Jim is an academic satire written by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1954 by Victor Gollancz. It was Amis's first published novel, and won the Somerset Maugham Award for fiction. Set sometime around 1950, Lucky Jim follows the exploits of the eponymous James (Jim) Dixon, a reluctant Medieval history lecturer at an unnamed provincial English university (based in part on...
NYRB Classics, 2012. — 296 p. — ASIN B007OLQD8G. Although Kingsley Amis's acid satire of postwar British academic life has lost some of its bite in the decades since it was published, it's still a rewarding read. There's no denying how big an impact it had back then. Lucky Jim could be considered the first shot in the Oxbridge salvo that brought us Beyond the Fringe, That Was...
Penguin Classics, 2012. — 136 p. — ISBN: 0141198621; ISBN13: 9780141198620. Based on Amis' series of six lectures on science fiction in 1959, New Maps of Hell, discussion emphasizes the satirical and dystopian elements in science fiction rather than being primarily about technology.
NYRB Classics, 2013. — 192 p. — ISBN: 1590176626; ISBN13: 9781590176627. The hero of One Fat Englishman, a literary publisher and lapsed Catholic escaped from the pages of Graham Greene to the campus of Budweiser College in provincial Pennsylvania, is philandering, drunken, bigoted, and very very fat, not to mention in a state of continuous spluttering rage against everything,...
Vintage Classics, 2004. — 304 p. — ISBN: 0099461048; ISBN13: 9780099461043. As if it weren’t terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, half-baked, critical or just plain capricious - and he begins to wonder whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted.
Penguin Classics, 2013. — 256 p. — ISBN: 0141194286; ISBN13: 9780141194288. In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite, Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams, who is married to a member of the local...
The Alteration is a 1976 alternate history novel by Kingsley Amis, set in a parallel universe in which the Reformation did not take place. It won the John W. Campbell Memorial Award in 1977. In his biography of Kingsley Amis, Richard Bradford devotes a chapter to The Alteration, its origins and context within the author's life. In 1973, Amis had heard a reproduction of the...
NYRB Classics, 2013. — 231 p. — ISBN: 1590176170; ISBN13: 9781590176177. In Kingsley Amis’s virtuoso foray into virtual history it is 1976 but the modern world is a medieval relic, frozen in intellectual and spiritual time ever since Martin Luther was promoted to pope back in the sixteenth century. Stephen the Third, the king of England, has just died, and Mass (Mozart’s second...
Flamingo, 2008. — 288 p. — ISBN: 0007292740; ISBN13: 9780007292745. 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 with extraordinary and unforeseen difficulties. Fane, an unashamed snob, has many pet hates, Including younger men with moustaches and trendy pronunciation....
Penguin Classics, 2012. — 297 p. — ISBN: 0141194308; ISBN13: 9780141194301. Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordsworth, when his son's lesbian lodger is beaten up by her girlfriend. He endures...
NYRB Classics, 2013. — 222 p. — ISBN: 1590176162; ISBN13: 9781590176160. Maurice Allington has reached middle age and is haunted by death. As he says, “I honestly can’t see why everybody who isn’t a child, everybody who’s theoretically old enough to have understood what death means, doesn’t spend all his time thinking about it. It’s a pretty arresting thought.” He also happens...
Jonathan Cape Ltd, 1965. — 159 p. — ISBN: 022460032X; ISBN13: 9780224600323. In The James Bond Dossier, Kingsley Amis provides a very thorough and (probably the first) in-depth critical analysis of the original Ian Fleming James Bond novels and short stories. The was written not long after Ian Fleming's passing and just as the James Bond phenomenon was getting into full swing...
Penguin Classics, 2011. — 235 p. — ISBN: 0141194316; ISBN13: 9780141194318. An indispensable companion for readers, writers, and even casual users of the language, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Kingsley Amis's The King's English features a new introduction by Martin Amis. The King's English is Kingsley Amis's authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the...
Miramax Books, 2001. — 1212 p. — ISBN: 0786867574; ISBN13: 9780786867578. In 1854, Kingsley Amis grabbed the attention of the literary world as one of the Angry Young Men with his first novel Lucky Jim. He maintained a public image of blistering intelligence, savage wit, and belligerent fierceness of opinion until his death in 1995. In his letters, he confirms the legendary...
NYRB Classics, 2012. — 320 p. — ISBN: 159017576X; ISBN13: 9781590175767. 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 “all of a sudden the evening starts starting after breakfast”—nattering, complaining,...
The Old Devils is a novel by Kingsley Amis, first published in 1986. The novel won the Booker Prize. It was adapted for television by Andrew Davies for the BBC in 1992, starring John Stride, Bernard Hepton, James Grout and Ray Smith (it was the latter's last screen appearance before his death). Amis's son, Martin, has said that he considers the book his father's finest work....
Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.
Penguin Classics, 2012. — 204 p. — ISBN: 0141049561; ISBN13: 9780141049564. A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric...
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