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Hace 16 horas · The channel dedicated to collecting and preserving old radio dramas.
Hace 2 días · Some of these have been novelisations of episodes in the series of James Bond films, produced by Eon Productions, while others were either continuation novels or short stories. The first author was Kingsley Amis, writing under the pseudonym of Robert Markham, who produced one novel.
"Lucky Jim" by Kingsley Amis, is today's bargain audiobook from chirpbooks.com. price is $2.99. (Other than being a customer, I have no connection with Chirp. But I've had to label this as a promotion, because "Recommendation" and "Suggestion" don't seem to be available as labels. 🙂.
Hace 2 días · Ian Lancaster Fleming (28 May 1908 – 12 August 1964) was a British writer, best known for his postwar James Bond series of spy novels.Fleming came from a wealthy family connected to the merchant bank Robert Fleming & Co., and his father was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Henley from 1910 until his death on the Western Front in 1917. . Educated at Eton, Sandhurst, and, briefly, the ...
Hace 5 días · I read 'Money' over the weekend, my first attempt at Amis fiction, having managed to avoid it for 35 years. It has many great passages but takes an incredibly long time to reach a conclusion, by which time we've been through the gutter of this film producer's daily routines several times.
Hace 2 días · In the view of Evelyn Waugh and Kingsley Amis, it was not until the first volumes of Anthony Powell's sequence, A Dance to the Music of Time, were published in the 1950s, that an English novelist achieved the same command of atmosphere and precision of language with consistency, a view supported by later critics like A. N. Wilson ...
Hace 2 días · Literary Review covers all the latest books each month, ranging from history and biography to memoir and fiction. Each issue contains sixty-four pages of reviews from some of the leading authors, journalists, academics and thinkers in Britain in a variety of fields.
