Vale Martin Amis
1949-2023
Son of Oxford and Kingsley Amis. Graduate of Oxford University. Booker-shortlisted author of era-defining novels, including Money, London Fields and Time's Arrow.
FRANKENSTEIN IS ACTUALLY THE DOCTOR, NOT THE MONSTER, EXCEPT HE'S NOT EVEN A DOCTOR AND THE FACT THAT HE REJECTS HIS CREATURE MEANS HE *IS* A MONSTER BUT THE CREATURE BEING VICTOR'S SON MEANS HE'D TAKE HIS FATHER'S NAME SO THE CREATURE IS ALSO TECHNICALLY NAMED FRANKENST—
At BookTrust, we are all devastated to hear about the death of Raymond Briggs.
Raymond - the author and illustrator of The Snowman, Fungus the Bogeyman and so many other wonderful books - won our Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017.
He will live on in his stunning, iconic books.
The Booker Prize guide to... dystopian fiction.
Looking for your next dystopian fiction read? Or is it a genre that you've not delved into before? Find out all you need to know👇
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imagine your roommate eats the plums you were saving for breakfast and then writes a bitchy little poem talking about how good they were. and then it becomes one of the most famous poems of all time
Looking for 19th-century essays?
Here's Charles Dickens' first writing about Christmas, advising readers to count their blessings and 'dwell not upon the past'.
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Find a whole host of essays on #DiscoveringLiterature: https://t.co/v95Mbcexim