A memoir of Martin Amis, which talks about his life and presents an intimate look at the process of writing. Exploring his relationship with his father, the great comic novelist, Kingsley Amis, it records the changing literary scene in Britain and the United States, along with anecdotes and pen portraits.

A novel that begins as a quirk or obsession (a 'maggot' in the archaic sense of the word) which found its setting in the second wave of Protestant Dissent in England. It takes shape as a mystery - an investigation of unaccountable motives and deeds - which leads through beguiling paths to a starling vision at its centre.

Offers a guide to this extraordinary river and the towns and villages which line it. Exploring its history since prehistoric times, this book shows the fishes that swam in the river and the boats that plied its surface; about floods and tides; hauntings and suicides; miasmas and malaria; locks, weirs and embankments; bridges, docks and palaces.

Written by the author of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy series and Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency , this is another story about Dirk Gently, the self-styled holistic detective and master of all things alternative.

Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand.

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.