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Collected Poems by Kingsley Amis
Category: Poetry
The complete collection of Kingsley Amis's poems, as witty, scabrous and bracing as his celebrated novelsAlthough best known for his comic novels, Kingsley Amis wrote poetry throughout his career. Collected Poems spans subjects from nature and cricket to love, ageing and literature, brimming with his ch ...Show more
Colonel Sun (007 James Bond) by Kingsley Amis
Category: Crime and Thrillers
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
Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction
The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis' short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In "The 2003 Claret", ...Show more
Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis' short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In 'The 2003 Claret', ...Show more
Dear Illusion by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction
'I suppose it was conceited of me. But it was fun. And I felt like getting a bit of my own back on some of the people who'd conned and flattered me into wasting all those years.' In this wry, piercing short story from one of the greatest of all British postwar writers, an ageing poet considers the value ...Show more
Difficulties with Girls by Kingsley Amis
Category: Classic Fiction
In Kingsley Amis' "Difficulties With Girls", Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospital. They have reached a certain level of maturity, or so they think. It is not ...Show more
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction
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 b ...Show more
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
Category: Food and 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
Everyday Drinking - The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
Category: Food Cooking Wine
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 packa ...Show more
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
Category: Humour
Kingsley Amis's drink writing is better than anybody else's, ever. Esquire New in giftable hardcover, with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens-a collection of witty and deeply informed writings on wine, beer, and cocktails, from one of the all-time experts. Kingsley Amis was one of the great ...Show more
Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis
Category: Fiction
Douglas Yandell, a youngish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet another affair. Roy, meanwhile, wants Douglas as an alibi for his growing involvement with Sylvia, an unsuitably youn ...Show more