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Lionel Asbo: State of England by Martin Amis
$19.99 AUD
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
$22.99 AUD
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 by Martin Amis
$12.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Super-charged, anarchic and full of narrative acrobatics, "Money" burst on to the Eighties literary scene leaving a trail of imitators and devotees in its wake". ("Observer"). This is the story of John Self, consumer extraordinaire. Rolling around New York and London, he makes deals, spends wildly and ...Show more
Money - A Suicide Note by Martin Amis
$22.99 AUD
Category: 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
Money (O/P) by Martin Amis
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Porn freak and jetsetter, John Self, is the shameless heir to a fast-food culture where money beats out an invitation to futile self-gratification. Out in New York, mingling with the mighty, Self is embroiled in the corruption, the brutality and the obscenity of the money conspiracy.
The Information by Martin Amis
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
How can one writer hurt another where it really counts? This is the problem facing novelist Richard Tull, contemplating the success of his friend and rival Gwyn Barry. Revenger's tragedy, comedy of errors, contemporary satire, "The Information" is an extraordinary novel of dark humor and piercing insigh ...Show more
The Moronic Inferno by Martin Amis
$27.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 interviewed its literati, filmmakers, thinkers, opinion makers, leaders and crackpots with character ...Show more
The Pregnant Widow by Martin Amis
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Category: 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
The Pregnant Widow - Inside History by Martin Amis
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Summer 1970
The Rachel Papers by Martin Amis
$14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects.
The Rachel Papers: 50th Anniversary Edition by Martin Amis
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY CLAIRE LOWDONCharles Highway is every mother's worst nightmare.Precociously intelligent, mercilessly manipulative and highly sexed, Charles devotes the last of his teenage years to bedding girls and evading the half-arsed overtures of his distant parents. That is, until, he me ...Show more