Best Selling Books by Kingsley Amis

A near-future dystopia showing Britain under repressive post-communist Russian rule.

The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis''s short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In ''The 2003 Claret'', written in 1958, a time machine is invented for the weighty task of sending a man to 2010 to discover what the booze will taste like. In ''Boris and the Colonel'' a Cambridge spy is unearthed in the sleepy English countryside with the help of a plucky horse, while In ''Mason''s Life'' two men meet inside their respective dreams. The collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. Amis''s stories reveal the scope of his imagination and the warmth beneath his acerbic humour, and they all share the unmistakable style and wit of one of Britain''s best loved writers. With a new foreword by Rachel Cusk.

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

Three stories of army life, three stories of postwar England, and a piece of science fiction.

An excellent short introduction to the life and work of English short-story writer, poet, and novelest, Rudyard Kipling, who was the first English writer to be awarded the Nobel Prize. Amis, one of today''s most admired writers, heightens our perception of Kipling''s character and his great achievements.