Polaroids from the Dead

Literature & Fiction

Coupland, Douglas

Essays & Correspondence

Flamingo/ HarperCollins

The Point: Stories

D'Ambrosio, Charles

Short Stories & Anthologies

A novel by Martin Amis, 495 pages, first UK edition as new.

The Information

Amis,Martin

The Limited Edition of Martin Amis's magnificent novel of literary envy. In The Information, the best-selling author of London Fields and Time's Arrow has written a totally mesmerizing and thoroughly entertaining novel that puts all of his extraordinary talents on display. "I've always thought of Martin Amis as the literary Mick Jagger of my generation.--Christopher Buckley, Washington Times

THE INFORMATION.

Contemporary

Tracey is a tough streetwise 22-year-old born to a middle-class English woman. All she knows about her father is his name, Eoin MacSweeney, and that he was a travelling fiddle-player from Donegal. When her mother dies, Lisa hears by chance that MacSweeney is still alive and sets off to find him.

Father's music

DERMOT BOLGER

Literary

The God of Small Things

ROY, ARUNDHATI

Girlfriend In A Coma

Resident Alien; The New York Diaries

Quentin Crisp

Biographies & Memoirs

The First Three Minutes: Modern View of the Origin of the Universe (Flamingo)

Science & Math

WEINBERG, Steven

Astronomy & Space Science

The second volume of Jeremy Lewis&rsquo;s wonderfully entertaining autobiography sees him starting out, with a mixture of diffidence and self-professed incompetence, on a career in publishing. We follow his unexpected elevation, via bibulous lunches and slumberous afternoons, from miniondom to boardroom, before the inevitable expulsion occurs and he finds himself back in his familiar suburb, gazing out of the window and dreaming of Arcadia. Along the way he comes across a host of kindred (and sometimes very decidedly unkindred) spirits from the literary and publishing worlds: tucking into cod and chips with Jane and Geoffrey Grigson, drinking tea with Kingsley Amis and retsina with Patrick Leigh Fermor, and looking on with awe and admiration as a dhoti-clad Mr Chaudhuri, India&rsquo;s greatest writer and a sprightly nonagenarian, cuts clean through a telephone cable while digging a trench for his roses, instantly disconnecting all the houses down his quiet Oxford street. Hilarious as Jeremy Lewis&rsquo;s misadventures may be, 'Kindred Spirits' is tinged with melancholy, with a sense of chances missed and lost for ever, and the implacable passing of time. Exhilarating reading &hellip; a perfectly judged memoir, elegant and funny, inspiriting and illuminating.PATRICIA CRAIG, 'Independent' The funniest book I have ever read about publishing &hellip; this is not merely a hugely entertaining book, but also an important one.CHRISTOPHER SINCLAIR-STEVENSON, 'Daily Telegraph' That he&rsquo;s a &lsquo;nonentity&rsquo; is immaterial. Indeed, it rather points up his skill. Having no previous interest in Lewis&rsquo;s life, I read, absorbed and with the kind of pleasurable intensity usually derived from thrillers.NIGELLA LAWSON, 'Spectator'

Kindred Spirits - Adrift In Literary London

Jeremy Lewis

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