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Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits

'A true story, a murder story, a love story and a thriller bursting with humour, sex and often dazzling language' Independent

The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: '"Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,'

In 'De pijl van de tijd' van Martin Amis zit de verteller gevangen in het lichaam van een nazi-arts. Door de ogen van de verteller volgen we het leve

Nicola Six, regelmatig bezoekster van de Londense pub het Zwarte Kruis,is ervan overtuigd dat ze op haar vijfendertigste verjaardag vermoord zal worde

Like John Updike, Martin Amis is the pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation. Naipaul, Kurt Vonnegut, Iris Murdoch, Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, D

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

Originally published: London: Jonathan Cape, 1984.

Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconced at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend are reeling in a

In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted. in 'Career Move', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, wh

A collection of short stories of the author including "In the Place of the End" and "The Last Days of Muhammad Atta", and essays and reviews.

Like a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming Mr

Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is on holiday and struggling to

Detective Hoolihan, a policewoman, a police in cop parlance, begins to investigate the death of Jennifer. The evidence swings towards suicide - the gu

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 s

In ‘De rimpel van de tijd’ zijn van Martin Amis de beste stukken van de afgelopen dertig jaar verzameld, en dat levert een boek op waarin de grootste

John Self, 35 jaar, reclameman, heeft niet door dat hij voor veel geld zijn eigen ondergang koopt. Hij heeft een paar succesvolle spotjes gemaakt en r