Lionel Asbo - format ePub

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION FROM ANDREW O'HAGANJohn Self is a consumer extraordinaire. Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he...

Six friends are determined to escape for a debauched weekend in the countryBlitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the six twenty-something friends ensconced at Appleseed Rectory for the...

Lionel Asbo has just won £139,999,999.50 on the Lottery. A horribly violent, but horribly unsuccessful criminal, Lionel’s attentions up to now have all been on his nephew, Desmond Pepperdine. He showers...

'A terrifying, painfully funny Swiftian exercise in moral disgust' ObserverSmooth-talking, sensual and self-deluded, Gregory Riding leads an existence of formidable foppishness, his days and nights a...

An ex-circus strongman, veteran of Warsaw, 1939, and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny; maximum boredom and minimum love-making are advised...

In Martin Amis's short stories whole worlds are created - or inverted. In 'Straight Fiction', everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered 'straight' community; in 'Career Move', screenplay writers submit...

Fuelled by innumerable cigarettes, Martin Amis provides dazzling portraits of contemporaries and mentors alike: Larkin and Rushdie; Greene and Pritchett; Ballard and Burgess and Nicholson Baker; John...

Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson’s dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the...

'Martin Amis at his best... Wonderful... Extravagantly funny’ GuardianWhen 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change....

Of all the great novelists writing today, none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction – his essays, literary criticism and journalism are justly acclaimed. The Rub of Time comprises...

WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY JAMES WOODOnce close friends, writers Gwyn Barry and Richard Tull now find themselves in fierce competition.While Tull has spiralled into a mire of literary obscurity and belletristic...

At the age of ten, when Martin Amis spent a year in Princeton, New Jersey, he was excited and frightened by America. As an adult he has approached that confusing country from many arresting angles, and...

‘The best thing Martin Amis has done in fiction for years’ Literary Review...

'Other People had me purring with pleasure' The TimesLike a ghost or a fugitive, Mary roams through London - pursuing and pursued by memory and forgetting, by the compelling Amy Hide and the charming...

Martin Amis first wrote about September 11 a week later in a piece for The Guardian beginning, 'It was the advent of the second plane, sharking in low over the Statue of Liberty: that was the defining...

«  Il était une fois un roi qui demanda à son magicien préféré de confectionner un miroir magique. Dans ce miroir, on ne voyait pas son reflet. On y voyait son âme : il montrait qui l’on était vraiment....

Gwyn Barry et Richard Tull sont écrivains, amis de longue date. Tout réussit à Gwyn, qui cumule gloire littéraire et bonheur conjugal, tandis que Richard s’embourbe dans un quotidien terne et peine à...

" La fiction ne connaît nulle loi et sa liberté ne connaît aucune limite. La fiction, c’est la liberté.  "Inside Story est une invitation de Martin Amis en personne à parcourir sa vie, mais attention,...

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Ce qui suit est une lettre pour expliquer mon suicide. Quand vous la poserez, John Self aura cessé d’exister. M. A.En ce début des années 1980, Margaret Thatcher est Premier ministre du Royaume-Uni et...

Voici une confession. Elle sera brève. Je ne voulais pas avoir à lui faire ça. J’aurais infiniment préféré une autre solution. Enfin, c’est comme ça. M. A.Lorsqu’elle se réveille et s’assoit, elle est...

«  Ma vie avait belle allure sur le papier –où, en fait, elle était presque entièrement vécue.  »  Une des figures les plus irrévérencieuses des lettres anglaises, Martin Amis, revient sur sa vie d’écrivain,...

Lionel Asbo vient d’une banlieue où les garçons prennent le chemin de la prison plus souvent que celui de l’école, et où le pitbull est le meilleur ami de l’homme. Après avoir longtemps oeuvré dans le...

Le héros vieillissant de ce roman, Keith Nearing, se remémore l'été de ses vingt ans, en 1970, quand eut lieu un mystérieux événement qui bouleversa sa vie sexuelle et donc son existence entière. Dans...

«  Nous sommes tous dans le même bain maintenant. Et il en va de même pour la situation internationale, quelque chose devra céder, et bientôt. Tout cela va devenir plus hirsute, plus désordonné. Tout...

"Comme l’écriture, la peinture semble faire allusion à un monde à l’envers dans lequel, pour ainsi dire, la flèche du temps se déplace dans l’autre direction."L’histoire de Tod Friendly, brillant médecin,...

«  Voici venir le train de nuit. D’abord le bruit de couteaux qu’on aiguise. Puis son cri, discordant mais symphonique, semblable à une harmonie de klaxons. »  Mike Hoolihan est une policière désabusée...

THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILMAmidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married...

'Utterly compelling' GuardianLife...is shapeless, it does not point to and gather round anything, it does not cohere. Artistically, it's dead. Life's dead.So begins a love letter to life, a resuscitation...

‘A phenomenal writer’ Sunday TimesAn intoxicating comedy about youth, the 1970s, the sexual revolution and its aftermath.Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone's mind. Keith Nearing - a bookish twenty-year-old,...

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THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP BESTSELLER#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE'An utterly mesmerising novel..I absolutely loved this book' Bernardine Evaristo,...

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The hauntingly prophetic classic novel. Over 1 million copies sold in the UK. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books, which are forbidden, being...

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“At once a scholar’s homage to The Iliad and startlingly original work of art by an incredibly talented new novelist….A book I could not put down.”—Ann Patchett“Mary Renault lives again!” declares Emma...

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A burned-out pop star stranded in small-town Kentucky can't help falling for her unlikely knight in shining armour - the notoriously grumpy owner of the local pie shop - in this charming slice of romance...

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When the owner of the local flower shop in Rome, Kentucky, makes a questionable agreement with a tattooed bad boy, a delightful friends-to-lovers romance begins to bloom - from the author of When in Rome...

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Jonathan Harker, a young London solicitor travels to Transylvania to help a rich nobleman, Count Dracula, purchase an estate in England. Dracula is planning to immigrate to England, and wants Harker to...

The story of the orphan Oliver, who runs away from the workhouse only to be taken in by a den of thieves, shocked readers when it was first published. Dickens's tale of childhood innocence beset by evil...

This ebook compiles Jule Verne's complete collection, including "Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Interior of the Earth", "The Mysterious Island", "Around the World in Eighty Days",...

Fame. Fashion. Friendship. Hollie can't catch a break. She's broke, she's back living with her family, and her career prospects are precisely zero. So when the chance arises for her and her best friend...

As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of Chancery, it draws together a disparate group of people: Ada and Richard Clare, whose inheritance is gradually being...

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