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Martin Amis

Martin Amis’s books include Money, London Fields, Time’s Arrow and Lionel Asbo. He was one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists in 1983.

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Fiction | Issue 128

Fiction | Issue 128

Self-Portrait

Martin Amis

‘You’ve got your catflap, I’ve got my guy.’

Fiction | Issue 100

Fiction | Issue 100

The Unknown Known

Martin Amis

A satire on fundamentalism in this extract from an unpublished manuscript.

Fiction | Issue 87

Fiction | Issue 87

Northanger Abbey

Martin Amis

Jane Austen’s novel ‘Northanger Abbey’ was published posthumously in 1818. Martin Amis adapted it for Miramax Pictures in 2001. The film has yet to be made. This is how it begins.

Fiction | Issue 63

Fiction | Issue 63

The Coincidence of the Arts

Martin Amis

‘Round about, a thousand conversations missed a beat, gulped, and then hungrily resumed.’

Fiction | Issue 47

Fiction | Issue 47

Author, Author

Martin Amis

‘Cities at night, I feel, contain men who cry in their sleep and then say Nothing.’

Fiction | Issue 36

Fiction | Issue 36

Time’s Arrow (Part Three): The Conclusion

Martin Amis

‘Your shoulder blades still jolted to the artillery of the Russians as they scurried eastward.’

Fiction | Issue 34

Fiction | Issue 34

Time’s Arrow (Part Two)

Martin Amis

‘Nine nights later we woke up in the small hours and lay there coldly. “Shtib,” he grunted.’

Fiction | Issue 33

Fiction | Issue 33

Time’s Arrow

Martin Amis

‘I came rushing upward out of the blackest sleep to find myself surrounded by doctors.’

Fiction | Issue 25

Fiction | Issue 25

The Murderee

Martin Amis

‘This is a true story, but I can’t believe it’s really happening. It’s a murder story, too. I can't believe my luck.’

Fiction | Issue 13

Fiction | Issue 13

The Time Sickness

Martin Amis

‘Before me through the restraining bars, the sunset sprawls in its polluted pomp, full of genies, cloaked ghosts, crimson demons of the middle sky.’

Fiction | Issue 7

Fiction | Issue 7

Money

Martin Amis

‘How did I get like this? It can’t just be the booze and all the junk food I put away. I must have been booked in for this a long time ago.’

Fiction | Issue 4

Fiction | Issue 4

Let Me Count The Times

Martin Amis

‘Vernon made love to his wife three and a half times a week, and this was all right.’