Knihy od: Amis, M.

Lionel Asbo - a very violent but not very successful young criminal - is going about his morning duties in a London prison when he learns that he has just won GBP139,999,999.50 on the National Lottery. This is not necessarily good news for his ward and nephew, the orphaned Des...

An Italian poolside, Summer, 1970. Sex is very much on everyone’s mind. The girls are acting like boys and the boys are going on acting like boys. Keith Nearing – a bookish twenty year old, in that much disputed territory between five foot six and five foot seven – is...

C´est l´histoire d´un assassinat. Il n´a pas encore eu lieu. Mais il aura lieu. (Il a tout intér t.) Je connais l´assassin, je connais l´assassinée. Je connais l´heure, je connais le lieu. Je connais les mobiles (ses mobiles elle) et je connais les moyens. Je sais qui sera...

A gleaming marriage of full-throttle stylistics and penetrating thought, The Second Plane is a smart and indecently entertaining analysis of the world we woke up to on September 12, 2001. Sunday Herald

Xan Méo, artiste polyvalent, peut tre content de sa vie : le succ s, une vie privée comblée entre sa femme Russia et ses deux fillettes. Le soir de ses quarante-sept ans, alors qu

Charles Highway, a precociously intelligent and highly sexed teenager, is determined to sleep with an older woman before he turns twenty. Rachel fits the bill perfectly and Charles plans his seduction meticulously, sets the scene with infinite care - but it doesn't come off quite as Charles expects- (20030303)

The narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It´s a gift of a story from real life...all Samson has to do is to write it as it happens. Taking a small pocket...