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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $13.11"Kingsley Amis's drink writing is better than anybody else's, ever..." Esquire Kingsley Amis was one of the great masters of comic prose, and no subject was dearer to him than the art and practice... -
Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis 9781635579406
RRP: $36.18Booksplease Price: $22.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635579406Author Kingsley AmisFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint -
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.71Hubert Anvil is a 10 year old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and... -
That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65In That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis, competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and... -
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80At 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... -
The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional... -
Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis's short fiction... -
Girl, 20 by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Douglas Yandell, a young-ish 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... -
Stanley And The Women by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $16.71Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous,... -
Difficulties With Girls by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65In Kingsley Amis's Difficulties With Girls, Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches... -
The King's English by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65An indispensable companion for readers, writers, and even casual users of the language, the Penguin Modern Classics edition of Kingsley Amis's The King's English features a new introduction by Martin... -
The Green Man by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.71Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. However, the... -
Memoirs by Kingsley Amis 9780099461067
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $17.63Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his... -
The Riverside Villas Murder by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65A mummy is stolen from a small town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in fourteen year old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected... -
I Want It Now by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy... -
One Fat Englishman by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65Brimming 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... -
The Folks That Live On The Hill by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother... -
The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.65In this surreal comedy of soldiers and spies, Lieutenant James Churchill and his colleagues find themselves questioning their purpose. Are they for death or against it? These men of action will... -
New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In this hilarious, inspiring and provocative series of essays, Kingsley Amis introduces every reader to the wonders and value of science fiction writing. From the extraordinary ideas but sexless... -
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 9780241956847
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $8.03'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... -
Collected Poems by Kingsley Amis 9780141194219
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'One of the very best of our poets' Anthony PowellKingsley Amis wrote poems throughout his life, turning his acerbic, bracing perceptiveness on the same subjects that fill his novels: lust, lost... -
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Memoirs by Kingsley Amis 9780091745332 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.40An autobiography which describes the author's family in South London, his school days, Oxford, his joining the Army midway through the war and later leaving the academic world to work as a full-time... -
Take A Girl Like You by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $10.65In Kingsley Amis's Take A Girl Like You, twenty year old Jenny Bunn is supernally beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This... -
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37When Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis was first published, it catapulted its author into the bestseller lists and established her as one of our funniest and most eloquent of poets.'Cope has an... -
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The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis 9780091637903 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Booker Prize for Fiction 1986.Book InformationISBN 9780091637903Author Kingsley AmisFormat
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 9780141182599 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $3.23'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has...
Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 by Kingsley Amis 9781915797186
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.92Colonel Sun was the first James Bond novel published after the death of Ian Fleming. Penned by one of Britain's finest writers, Kingsley Amis, this new edition celebrates the novel's 55th...
The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction by Kingsley Amis 9780141195308
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37'Amis has no faults. He is clever, witty, ironical' GuardianWhat advice can one give a green young author? What purpose do literary prizes serve? Where on earth can a man get a decent bite to eat?...![Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope 9780571202508 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/9681961/10698681/9780571202508__04473.1781303427.jpg?c=1 "Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope 9780571202508 [USED COPY]")
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope 9780571202508 [USED COPY]
RRP: $5.35Booksplease Price: $3.24There are so many kinds of awful men - One can't avoid them all. She often said She'd never make the same mistake again: She always made a new mistake instead. (from 'Rondeau Redouble') When...
Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope 9780571352333
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such...![Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope 9780571167050 [USED COPY]](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/4931291/4930513/9780571167050__48565.1722495264.jpg?c=1 "Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope 9780571167050 [USED COPY]")
Serious Concerns by Wendy Cope 9780571167050 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.73Booksplease Price: $2.64Wendy Cope's first book of poems and parodies, Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis, went straight into the bestseller lists. Its successor, Serious Concerns has proved even more popular, addressing such...
Anecdotal Evidence by Wendy Cope
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37In her first collection of new poetry since 2011's acclaimed Family Values, Wendy Cope celebrates 'the half-forgotten stories of our lives' with compassion, wisdom and wit. Cope continues to be the...
Father and Son: Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British Novel Since 1950 by Gavin Keulks 9780299192143
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98Now in paperback, this innovative study of two of England's most popular, controversial, and influential writers breaks new ground in examining the relationship between Kingsley Amis and his son,...
Life, Love and The Archers: recollections, reviews and other prose Wendy Cope 9781444795387
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $12.41Wendy Cope has long been one of the nation's best-loved poets, with her sharp eye for human foibles and wry sense of humour. For the first time, Life, Love and the Archers brings together the best of...
Vermilion Sands J G Ballard 9780099273585
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $11.62A FUTURISTIC COVER - COMES WITH 3D GLASSES!Welcome to Vermilion Sands, the fully automated desert-resort ready to fulfil your most exotic whims. Home to the idle rich it now languishes in uneasy...
Understanding Martin Amis by James Diedrick 9781570035166
RRP: $24.11Booksplease Price: $21.31Understanding Martin Amis is a comprehensive guide to the novels, short stories and non-fiction by one of Britain's most highly acclaimed and controversial authors. Building on the first edition, of...
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers by William Palmer 9781472145000
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $15.79'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers and drink which displays the same subtle qualities as William Palmer's own...
In Love with Hell: Drink in the Lives and Work of Eleven Writers William Palmer 9781472144997
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.36'Sympathetic and wonderfully perceptive . . . a heartbreaking read'NICK COHEN, Critic'Wise, witty and empathetic . . . outstanding'JIM CRACE'A fascinating treatment of the age-old problem of writers...
My Search for Warren Harding Robert Plunket 9780241707999
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $9.80Elliot Weiner is a historian with a passion for Morris dancing and Warren Harding, 'the shallowest President in history'. After Weiner receives a research grant to write a book on Harding's...
Room At The Top by John Braine
RRP: $13.39Booksplease Price: $10.04The Angry Young Men movement, featuring such stars as Kingsley Amis, is perfectly illustrated through the iconic figure of Joe Lampton. The ruthlessly ambitious Joe Lampton rises swiftly from the...