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Colonel Sun (007 James Bond) by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Classics
First published in 1968, four years after Ian Fleming's death, this was the first Bond 'continuation' novel, penned by one of Britain's finest novelists, Kingsley Amis. 'A man in my line of business shouldn't work to a timetable'. Lunch at Scott's, a quiet game of golf, a routine social call on his chie ...Show more
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Food & Drink
Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice of imbibing. This new volume brings together the best of his three out-of-print works on the subject: Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How's Your Glass? In one handsome pack ...Show more
Lucky Jim: Popular Penguins by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Penguin Orange Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
'His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as a mausoleum. During the night, too, he'd somehow been on a cross-country run and then been expertly beaten up by secret police. He felt bad.'Jix Dixon has a terrible job at a second-rate university. His life is full o ...Show more
Memoirs by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Classics
"Endlessly entertaining-Good, rollicking stuff, and a delight to read -- Sir Kingsley Amis is surely one of the funniest men alive." --Auberon Waugh, Sunday Telegraph Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous fri ...Show more
Stanley and the Women by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Classics
Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son, Steve, goes insane. As if that weren't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, half-baked, critical or just plain capricious. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whet ...Show more
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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 sec ...Show more
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
Like all good medieval coaching inns, the Green Man in Fareham, Hertfordshire, boasts a resident, if retired, ghost- Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to have killed his wife. The landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness ...Show more
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Classics | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
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.
You Can't Do Both by Kingsley Amis
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Category: Classics
Robin Davies is both a shrewd observer and an energetic actor in a drama that takes him from school to Oxford. With him we live through all the pangs of a pre-war adolescence in South London, and on through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, seduction and commit ...Show more
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