Money: A Suicide Note
A representative and widely read satirical novel that introduces Amis's mature style and begins the informal London Trilogy.
Author guide
Martin Amis Books in Order
Martin Amis (1949–2023) was an English novelist, essayist, literary critic, memoirist, and journalist. His career began with The Rachel Papers and encompassed fifteen novels, two major short-story collections, memoir, political and historical nonfiction, literary criticism, and journalism. His best-known fiction includes Money, London Fields, Time's Arrow, The Information, and The Zone of Interest; his nonfiction includes Experience, Koba the Dread, and The War Against Cliché. He was a prominent figure in postwar British literature and the son of novelist Kingsley Amis.
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The Rachel Papers
The chronological starting point and his first novel, useful for following the development of his career.
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Books by series
trilogy · complete
London Trilogy
An informal critical grouping of three interconnected London novels: Money, London Fields, and The Information.
- 1 Money: A Suicide Note
Book 1 · novel · 1984
An anti-hero to beat them all, John Self is a dissipated connoisseur of self-gratification. Addicted to porn, fast-food and money, he lives a culture-less high-life in New York and London, groping his way through a world of all-day…
- 2 London Fields
Book 2 · novel · 1989
Writer, Samson Young, is staring death in the face, and not only his own. Void of ideas and on the verge of terminal decline, Samson’s dash to a decaying, degenerate London has brought him through the doors of the Black Cross pub and into…
- 3 The Information
Book 3 · novel · 1995
There aren't many ways for one writer to harm another, but failed novelist Richard Tull is determined to find a way to hurt his best friend and arch rival - even if it means hiring a professional.
Outside the series
Bibliography by category
Novels (14)
- The Rachel Papers
novel · 1973
In his uproarious first novel Martin Amis, author of the bestselling London Fields, gave us one of the most noxiously believable -- and curiously touching -- adolescents ever to sniffle and lust his way through the pages of contemporary…
- Dead Babies
novel · 1975
Blitzed on uppers, downers, blue movies and bellinis, the bacchanalia bent on bon-vivants, ensconced at Appleseed Rectory for the weekend, are reeling in a hallucinatory haze of sex and seduction. But as Friday spirals into Sunday, and…
- Success
novel · 1978
Martin Amis captures a growing American audience with this dazzling black comedy about family, class and revenge. For the first time in paperback, an exquisitely constructed, cruelly funny, mercilessly intimate portrait of two messy…
- Other People: A Mystery Story
novel · 1981
- Invasion of the Space Invaders
nonfiction · 1982
This is a review, history, tips, hints, and strategy guide to arcade video games, 19 games are featured, and reviewed in this book, along with various hand held systems, and video game consoles. The book looks at the effect they had on…
- Time's Arrow: Or the Nature of the Offence
novel · 1991
- Night Train
novel · 1997
Detective Mike Hoolihan has seen it all. A fifteen-year veteran of the force, she's gone from walking a beat, to robbery, to homicide. But one case - this case - has gotten under her skin. When Jennifer Rockwell, darling of the community…
- Koba the Dread: Laughter and the Twenty Million
nonfiction · 2002
A brilliant weave of personal involvement, vivid biography and political insight, Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis’s award-winning memoir, Experience. Koba the Dread captures the appeal of one of the most powerful belief…
- Yellow Dog
novel · 2003
'Martin Amis at his best... Wonderful... Extravagantly funny’ Guardian When 'dream husband' Xan Meo is vengefully assaulted in the garden of a London pub, he suffers head-injury, and personality-change. Like a spiritual convert, the…
- House of Meetings
novella · 2006
House of meetings is a triangular romance. Two brothers fall in love with the same girl, a nineteen-year-old Jewess, in Moscow, which is poised for pogrom in the gap between the war and the death of Stalin. Both brothers are arrested and…
- The Pregnant Widow
novel · 2010
Summer 1970, a long, hot summer. In a castle in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution.
- Lionel Asbo: State of England
novel · 2012
- The Zone of Interest
novel · 2014
- Inside Story
novel · 2020
This extraordinary novel gives the reader the heart-to-heart testimony of one of our finest writers - a wonder of literary invention and a boisterous modern classic. His most intimate and epic work to date, Inside Story is the portrait of…
Nonfiction (1)
- Experience: A Memoir
memoir · 2000
Short fiction (3)
- Einstein's Monsters
short-story-collection · 1987
An ex-circus strongman and Notting Hill rough-justice artist, meets his own personal holocaust and 'Einsteinian' destiny. There is maximum boredom and minimum love-making advised, while a new strain of schizophrenia overwhelms the young…
- Two Stories
short-story-collection · 1994
- Heavy Water and Other Stories
short-story-collection · 1998
A wickedly delightful collection of stories establishing Amis as one of the most versatile and gifted writers of his generation. "Martin Amis is a force unto himself.... There is, quite simply, no one else like him."—The Washington Post…
Essays and speeches (5)
- The Moronic Inferno: And Other Visits to America
essay-collection · 1986
- Visiting Mrs Nabokov: And Other Excursions
essay-collection · 1993
- The War Against Cliché: Essays and Reviews 1971–2000
essay-collection · 2001
- The Second Plane
essay-collection · 2008
- The Rub of Time: Bellow, Nabokov, Hitchens, Travolta, Trump: Essays and Reportage, 1986–2016
essay-collection · 2017
Frequently asked questions about Martin Amis
Who was Martin Amis, and what is he known for?
Martin Amis (1949–2023) was an English novelist, essayist, critic, memoirist, and journalist. He became especially known for darkly comic, satirical fiction and sharp cultural criticism, helping redefine the British literary scene in the 1980s.
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When and where was Martin Amis born, and when did he die?
Martin Amis was born in Oxford, England, on 25 August 1949, and died on 19 May 2023 in Lake Worth, Florida, aged 73.
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Who was Martin Amis’s father?
His father was the novelist Kingsley Amis, an important figure in postwar British literature. Martin’s writing and public identity were often discussed in relation to his father’s literary career.
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Which writers influenced Martin Amis?
Martin Amis identified Saul Bellow and Vladimir Nabokov as two of the writers who had meant most to him and influenced his work. He also maintained a strong engagement with American fiction and with the literary tradition represented by his father, Kingsley Amis.
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What awards did Martin Amis win?
Amis won the 1974 Somerset Maugham Award for The Rachel Papers and the 2000 James Tait Black Biography Prize for Experience. His novel Time’s Arrow was shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, which was won by Ben Okri.
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