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Everyday Drinking: The Distilled Kingsley Amis by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62"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... -
The Alteration by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31Hubert 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... -
Ending Up by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43At 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66Malcolm, 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... -
The King's English by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26An 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31Like 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... -
Complete Stories by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Douglas 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: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Just 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26In 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... -
That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26In 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... -
I Want It Now by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43The 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26Brimming 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 Old Devils by Kingsley Amis 9781590175767
RRP: $25.74Booksplease Price: $18.23Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26In 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... -
Lucky Jim by Kingsley Amis 9781590175750
RRP: $21.87Booksplease Price: $15.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Folks That Live On The Hill by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26Harry 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 Riverside Villas Murder by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26A 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... -
New Maps of Hell by Kingsley Amis
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.73'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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'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... -
Making Cocoa for Kingsley Amis by Wendy Cope
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.05When 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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Memoirs by Kingsley Amis 9780091745332 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.28An 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.26In 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... -
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The Old Devils by Kingsley Amis 9780091637903 [USED COPY]
Booksplease Price: $3.39Apologies 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $3.11Sorry no description is available for this book at this time.
The Amis Collection: Selected Non-fiction by Kingsley Amis 9780141195308
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91'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?...
Colonel Sun: James Bond 007 by Kingsley Amis 9781915797186
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.55Colonel 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...![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: $5.15Booksplease Price: $3.12There 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91Wendy 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: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.54Wendy 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: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91In 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: $21.92Booksplease Price: $19.23Now 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.95Wendy 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $11.18A 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: $23.21Booksplease Price: $20.51Understanding 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: $19.34Booksplease Price: $15.20'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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.97'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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.43Elliot 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: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66The 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...