Kingsley Amis

This book was runner-up (to Brigid Brophy 's) for the Cheltenham Literary Festival's prize for a first novel. It and her second caused IM to be grouped with the so-called socially anarchic school

EJH and Kingsley Amis moved out from London to a house on Hadley Common near Barnet called Lemmons.

She found it deeply depressing that this act of violence should have come as no surprise to herself and Kingsley Amis , with their recent experience of Nashville, Tennessee. Murder, she observed, does not come...

Her subjects include George Eliot 's Middlemarch, Zora Neale Hurston , Franz Kafka , Vonnegut and Salinger as cult figures, Roland Barthes and Vladimir Nabokov (pitted against each other as attacker and booster of...

The first book that affected PS deeply was Brontë 's Jane Eyre, with whose protagonist she identified. At fifteen she read T. S. Eliot and Emily Dickinson and conceived a wish to be...

In the second of these years the student editors, Kingsley Amis and James Michie , made their selection under the specific rubric of toughness and modernity.