Martin Amis

She chose the medieval option. Her tutor was Rosemary Woolf , and she studied no authors later than Shakespeare . She reports the results of this in two different ways. In one version the course...

Also named as her lovers were film-maker Warren Beatty and novelist Martin Amis .

They had been living together for more than a year, and EJH had already embarked on the difficult stepmother relationship with the three Amis children—especially the two boys, who were living with them, and were...

There RR lent out estate cottages to avant-garde writers younger than herself, such as Martin Amis , Julian Barnes , and Jeanette Winterson , to provide them with a place to write.

Through a Cambridge friend ZS met (while she was a nineteen-year-old undergraduate, not a published writer) Ian McEwan and Martin Amis . It was at McEwan's wedding celebration, a party full of people from my...

Before beginning this novel she asked the advice of her stepson Martin Amis to help her choose between this and a present-day version of Austen 's Sense and Sensibility. He opted unhesitatingly for the...

The reviewer for the Times Literary Supplement found the regressive narrative disconcerting and tiring. Novelist L. P. Hartley , writing in the London Magazine, expressed the view that the technique was a misuse...

Ruth Scurr in the Telegraph judged EJH to be as impressive a writer as ever in this novel, and instanced her handling of dialogue among children.Lettie Ransley in the Guardian wrote that this was...

EJH 's stepson and fellow novelist Martin Amis has written that Howard (with Iris Murdoch ) was the most interesting woman writer of her generation.

On the basis of this novel, The Times hailed ZS as canonical, one of a handful of contemporary novelists who really matter and who, we may confidently assume, will last.Philip Hensher in...

Having been a temporary filing clerk before university, MG worked from 1972 to 1974 for Elsevier International Press at their offices in Oxford, then spent six months on the dole, writing. While working at...

Anthony Thwaite edited PL 's Collected Poems in 1988 and his Selected Letters, 1940-1985, in 1992. Andrew Motion published a biography in 1993. Both Alan Bennett and Martin Amis have edited selections of Larkin's...

This book provoked an unusual article from journalist Mark Lawson , centred less on Brookner than on his own response. I have mocked her dessicated sentences, characterless protagonists and action-free narratives, he wrote. The gist...

David Jays , in an article confessing his preference for the current lionesses to the lions among British novelists—a preference, that is, for ASB , Zadie Smith , A. L. Kennedy , Sarah Waters ...

When in 1983 the magazine Granta presented a list of twenty names identified as the Best Young British Novelists, RT was among them (along with Pat Barker , Martin Amis , Salman Rushdie ...