Martin Amis

Time's Arrow: or The Nature of the Offence is a novel by Martin Amis. It was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

London Fields is a black comic, murder mystery novel by British writer Martin Amis, published in 1989. Regarded by Amis's readership as possibly his strongest novel, the tone gradually shifts from high comedy, interspersed with deep personal introspections, to a dark sense of foreboding and eventually panic at the …

Absolutely one of the funniest, smartest, meanest books I know. John Self, the Rabelaisian narrator of the novel, is an advertising man and director of TV commercials who lurches through London and Manhattan, eating, drinking, drugging and smoking too much, buying too much sex, and caring for little else besides …

Fame, envy, lust, violence, intrigues literary and criminal--they're all here in The Information. How does one writer hurt another writer? This is the question novelist Richard Tull mills over, for his friend Gwyn Barry has become a darling of book buyers, award committees, and TV interviewers, even as Tull himself …

Le Monde englouti est un roman de science-fiction, écrit en 1962 par James G. Ballard. Ce livre a été publié pour la première fois en France en 1964 aux éditions Denoël avec une traduction de Marie-France Desmoulin. Une nouvelle traduction a été réalisée par Michel Pagel en 2008.

The Rachel Papers is Martin Amis' first novel, published in 1973 by Jonathan Cape.

Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case--this case--has gotten under her skin.When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community and daughter of a respected career cop--now top brass--takes her own life, no one is …

Sibérie, 2004. Tandis que résonnent les rumeurs de la guerre en Tchétchénie, un vieil homme revient sur les lieux de son passé, au goulag, où il fut interné pendant dix ans, même s'il s'était "illustré" dans les rangs de l'Armée rouge. Parmi ses milliers de codétenus, il y avait on frère, aussi idéaliste que lui-même …

Poupées crevées est le deuxième roman de l'écrivain anglais Martin Amis écrit en 1975.

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 Kingsley's life, including the final one of his death. Amis also reflects on the life and legacy of his cousin, Lucy Partington, who disappeared …