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Dear Illusion by Kingsley Amis
3.99 NZD
7.00 (43% off)
Category: Classic Books
'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
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
30.00 NZD
Category: General 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
28.99 NZD
Category: Wine, Beer and Spirits | Reading Level: From 8
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
Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis
30.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Jake's Thing by Kingsley Amis
18.95 NZD
21.95 (13% off)
Category: Fiction
Jake Richardson, an Oxford don nearing sixty with a lifetime's lechery behind him, is in pursuit of his lost libido and heads of to the consulting room of a miniature sex therapist. Not one to disobey a doctor's orders, he runs the full humiliating gamut of sex labs and trendy 'workshops', where more th ...Show more
Lucky Jim: Popular Penguins by Kingsley Amis
12.99 NZD
15.99 (18% off)
Category: Classic Books | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
'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
One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to seduce every woman he encounters. But his American hosts seem made of sterner stuf ...Show more
The King's English by Kingsley Amis
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
"The King's English" is Kingsley Amis' authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders and barbarities that lie in wait for us, from danglers, four- ...Show more
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