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Dead Babies by Martin Amis
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent bon-vivants ensconced at Appleseed Rectoryfor the weekend are reeling in an hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. But as Friday melts into Saturday and Saturday spirals into Sunday and sobriety sets in, the orgiastic romp desc ...Show more
Experience by Martin Amis
29.95 NZD
32.99 (9% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
In this remarkable work of autobiography, the son of the great comic novelist Kingsley Amis explores his relationship with his father and writes about the various crises of Kinsley's life, including the final one of his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who ...Show more
Heavy Water and Other Stories (1998) by Martin Amis
24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Martin Amis's short stories make his novels look prim. They are also more frankly satirical. Whole words are created - or inverted. In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay (apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community); in 'Career Moves', screenplay writers submit their works to little magazines, whil ...Show more
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
26.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. "Hou ...Show more
House of Meetings by Martin Amis
12.99 NZD
45.00 (71% off)
Category: General Fiction
There were conjugal visits in the slave camps of the USSR. Valiant women would travel continental distances, over weeks and months, in the hope of spending a night, with their particular enemy of the people, in the House of Meetings. The consequences of these liaisons were almost invariably tragic. ...Show more
Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis
26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
âe~Why arenâe(tm)t you out smashing windows? Itâe(tm)s not healthyâe(tm) Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful criminal - has always looked out for his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He gives him fatherly advice (carry a knife) and introduces him to the joys of Internet porn. Des, on the ot ...Show more
London Fields by Martin Amis
26.95 NZD
27.99 (3% off)
Category: Fiction
London Fields is Martin Amis' murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a "black hole" of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may be Keith Talent, a violent lowlife whose only passions are pornography and darts, or the rich ...Show more
Money - A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
26.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and does reckless movie-world business, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography, a mountain of junk food and mor ...Show more
Success by Martin Amis
26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Smooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a series of effortless, titillating conquests and tireless sex - sister, employers, aquaintances are but co-stars among a cast of thousands to have passed though his busy bed. His f ...Show more
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting like boys. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty year old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven - is struggling to twist feminism toward ...Show more