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Complete Stories of J. G. Ballard by Ballard J. G. Amis Martin
$35.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Dead Babies by Martin Amis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconced at Appleseed Rectoryfor the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. But as Friday melts into Saturday and Saturday spirals into Sunday and sobriety sets in, the orgiastic romp desc ...Show more
Experience by Martin Amis
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 Kinsley's life, including the final one of his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who ...Show more
Heavy Water and Other Stories (1998) by Martin Amis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Martin Amis's short stories make his novels look prim. They are also more frankly satirical. Whole words are created - or inverted. In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay (apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community); in 'Career Moves', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, whil ...Show more
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. "Hou ...Show more
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
$39.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. ...Show more
Inside Story by Martin Amis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous modern classic His most intimate and epic work to date, Inside Story is the unseen portrait of Martin Amis' extraordinary life, as a man and a writer. Th ...Show more
Inside Story by Martin Amis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A magisterial, inventive and witty modern classic - Amis' autobiographical novel and arguably his most important masterpiece to date - the companion volume to EXPERIENCE 'The Mick Jagger of literature' Daily TelegraphLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere ...Show more
Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict's Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best Machines by Martin Amis
$35.00 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
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 In this offbeat book, introduced by Stephen Spielberg, acclaimed author Martin Amis explores how 1980s video games took a genera ...Show more
Koba the Dread:Laughter and the Twenty Million by Martin Amis
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Koba the Dread is the successor to Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by Western intellectuals. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best one hundred pag ...Show more
Lionel Asbo by Martin Amis
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 won GBP139,999,999.50 on the National Lottery. This is not necessarily good news for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Des Pepperdine, who still has ...Show more