World of Books - Find your book here

Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis

Here is the beloved, bestselling compendium of Kingsley Amis's wisdom on the cherished subject of drinking.
The Alteration

The Alteration

Kingsley Amis

In a dystopian world where Martin Luther never reformed and where the Holy Office's power is absolute, where will Hubert turn if he decides to defy their wishes? 'Kingsley Amis's coruscating tour de force.
Take A Girl Like You

Take A Girl Like You

Kingsley Amis

In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much.
Complete Stories

Complete Stories

Kingsley Amis

The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny.
Memoirs

Memoirs

Kingsley Amis

Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes).
Kingsley Amis: Antimodels and the Audience

Kingsley Amis: Antimodels and the Audience

Andrew James

Richard Bradford followed this line of argument by describing I Want It Now as an “indulgently romanticized version” of Amis and Howard's love story that parallels Sleeping Beauty (2001, 241). The author's pre—novel notes support this ...
Dear Illusion

Dear Illusion

Kingsley Amis

'I suppose it was conceited of me.
Kingsley Amis

Kingsley Amis

William E. Laskowski

Offers a critical introduction to the life and work of the English author and journalist
Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis

Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain.
Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life

Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life

Charles Kingsley

Charles Kingsley Frances Eliza Kingsley. Woodburne's hounds found at Blackholme, at the bottom of Windermere, and ended beyondHelvellyn, more than fifty miles of mountain. After Applethwaite Crag (where the field lost them) they had a ...
Girl, 20

Girl, 20

Kingsley Amis

Girl, 20 is a merciless send-up of 1970s London's permissive society from a master of uproarious comedy. With a new introduction by Howard Jacobson.
Lucky Jim

Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis

This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history at a provincial university who knows better than most that there was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
Jake's Thing

Jake's Thing

Kingsley Amis

Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing sixty with a lifetime's lechery behind him, is in pursuit of his lost libido and heads off to the consulting room of a miniature sex therapist.
The Anti-Death League

The Anti-Death League

Kingsley Amis

When the Anti-Death League is founded they are at last offered the chance to rebel and perhaps escape .
Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond

Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond

Preview

This is the first collection of essays ever published on Martin Amis, one of England's most controversial and critically acclaimed authors.
The Pregnant Widow

The Pregnant Widow

Martin Amis

It is funny, clever and knowing' DAILY MAIL 'Delight us Amis does, and as few can' INDEPENDENT 'What a voice! There's a full-throated energy to this book that makes more respectable contemporary novels look like turgid waffle' GUARDIAN
Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions

Visiting Mrs Nabokov And Other Excursions

Martin Amis

Sex without Madonna, expulsion from school, a Stones gig that should have been gagged, on set with Robocop or on court with Gabriela Sabatini, this is Martin Amis at his electric best.
Martin Amis

Martin Amis

Brian Finney

Part of the Routledge Guides to Literature series, this volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of Martin Amis and seeking not only a guide to his works but also a way through the wealth of contextual and critical ...
Martin Amis: The Essential Guide

Martin Amis: The Essential Guide

Jonathan Noakes

This guide deals with Amis's themes, genre and narrative technique, and a close reading of the texts will provide a rich source of ideas for intelligent and inventive ways of approaching the novels.
Heavy Water And Other Stories

Heavy Water And Other Stories

Martin Amis

In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted.
The Struggle for Your Mind: Conscious Evolution and the ...

The Struggle for Your Mind: Conscious Evolution and the ...

Kingsley L. Dennis

KINGSLEY L. DENNIS, Ph.D., is a sociologist, writer, and cofounder of WorldShift International. The author of New Consciousness for a New World, he spends his time between Andalusia, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Einstein's Monsters

Einstein's Monsters

Martin Amis

The stories in this collection form a unity and reveal a deep preoccupation: '"Einstein's Monsters" refers to nuclear weapons but also to ourselves,' writes Amis in his enlightening introductory essay, 'We are Einstein's monsters: not fully ...
Contemporary Spirituality for an Evolving World: A Handbook ...

Contemporary Spirituality for an Evolving World: A Handbook ...

Nicolya Christi

Kingsley Dennis www.kingsleydennis.com Writer, researcher, andfuturist Kingsley Dennis is theauthor ofNew Consciousness for a NewWorld and The Struggle forYour Mind: Conscious Evolution and the Battle to Control How We Think.
After the Car

After the Car

Kingsley Dennis

Kingsley Dennis, John Urry. control and advise traffic on the network to maintain traffic flow without adversely affecting the local environment.18 Indeed, road space allocation may lead to trafficmanagement systems that will prioritize journeys ...
Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis

Philip Larkin Poems: Selected by Martin Amis

Philip Larkin

For the first time, Faber publish a selection from the poetry of Philip Larkin. Drawing on Larkin's four collections and on his uncollected poems. Chosen by Martin Amis.
Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The Syndrome ...

Diseases and Disorders in Contemporary Fiction: The Syndrome ...

Preview

The Representation of Trauma in Martin Amis' Yellow Dog and Ian McEwan's Saturday Nick Bentley This chapter exploresthe contrasting representation of trauma in two contemporary British novels: Martin Amis' Yellow Dog (2003) and Ian ...
New Revolutions for a Small Planet: How the Global Shift in ...

New Revolutions for a Small Planet: How the Global Shift in ...

Kingsley Dennis Author

Kingsley Dennis Author. This edition first published in the UK and USA 2012 by Watkins Publishing, Sixth Floor, Castle House, 75–76 Wells Street, London W1T 3QH Design and typography copyright © Watkins Publishing 2012 Text copyright  ...
Money

Money

Martin Amis

This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire.
Vieux garçon

Vieux garçon

Bernard Chapuis

Ses amis l'appellent Paul Newman.

who called from an unknown number?