Gordon Scott-Thompson, a struggling writer, is hired to write the biography of veteran novelist, Jimmie Fane. It's a task littered with unforeseen difficulties. Fane, an unashamed snob, has many pet hates: including young men with moustaches and trendy pronunciation! But Gordon is very attached to his moustache, and not particular about his use of language. Will Gordon have to part with his most distinctive facial feature for the sake of a publisher's advance?

The biographer's moustache

Literature & Fiction

AMIS, Kingsley

Contemporary

Flamingo

The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage

The King's English : A Guide to Modern Usage

The Kingâ€™s English: a guide to modern usage

Reference

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Harpercollins

as new, unread, pp. 1208, b/w illustrations, "spanning over 50 years, this volume provides a moving, scandalously funny, warts-and-all self-portrait of one of our finest and most-missed writers."

The Letters of Kingsley Amis

Zachary Leader (ed.)

Biographies & Memoirs

Gordon Scott-Thompson, a struggling hack, gets commissioned to write the biography of veteran novelist, Jimmie Fane. It is a task which proves to be fraught with extraordinary and unforeseen difficulties.Fane, an unashamed snob, has many pet hates, including younger men with moustaches and trendy pronuncation. Scott-Thompson, however, is extrememly attached to his own moustache and not so particular about his use of language. It doesnt help matters that Fanes wife Joanna isnt yet sure what she feels about coustaches, but has decided views on younger men.

Biographer's Moustache

Looking for emotional support after learning that his son is going mad, Stanley Duke, a beleaguered advertising executive, turns to Nowell, his first wife, who blames him for the boy's illness, and his second wife, Susan, who confesses she hates him

Stanley and the Women: A Novel

When Alun and Rhiannon Weaver return home to Wales after living in London for thirty years, their celebrity status and past connections begin to stir up trouble

The Old Devils: A Novel

In this hilarious, outrageous and wickedly funny story of Jake and his lost libido, Kingsley Amis does not pull any punches, but takes some well-aimed swipes at the crankier fringes of psychotherapy and at sex--1970s style. "Vintage Amis...he has probably given as much pleasure as any novelist of his generation." (Scotsman)

Jake's Thing

Hutchinson

Collected poems, 1944-1979

Collected short stories

Short Stories & Anthologies

Winner of the 1986 Booker Prize. Malcolm, 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 Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.

The old devils

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