Martin Amis
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Joyce, James 352–3, 383, 390
Judaism 232, 343–8
Kaplan, J. M. 273
Kavanagh, Julie 117–18, 119–21, 145, 173
Kavanagh, Pat 95, 98, 99, 157, 163, 188–9, 207, 282, 283, 284–6
Keats, John 59, 60
Keitel, Harvey 216, 217
Keneally, Thomas 265–6
Kennedy, A. L. 391
Kensington Garden Square (Amis home) 157
Kershaw, Ian 335
Kilmarnock, Lady see Amis, Hilary ‘Hilly’
Kilmarnock, Lord 87, 88, 110, 117, 190–1, 305, 327, 329–30
Kilmartin, Terry 119, 126, 128, 130, 179, 180
Koenig, Rhoda 265
Kollek, Teddy 231, 232
Labour Conference, Blackpool (1978) 153–4
Larkin, Philip 6, 8–9, 19, 21, 105–6, 109, 133–4, 187, 373
correspondence with KA 1, 2, 3–4, 7, 18, 58–9, 60, 61, 62, 63, 88, 164, 217, 218, 306, 307–8, 378
Lawrence, D. H. 59, 60, 342
Leader, Zachary 5, 31, 35, 36, 223, 241, 244, 270, 272, 287, 307, 308–9, 325, 379
Leamington Road Villa (Amis home) 221, 244, 247, 248, 276, 309, 310, 353
Leishman, J. B. 67
‘Lemmons,’ Barnet (Amis home) 76, 84, 87–8, 89–92, 95, 107, 115–16, 138, 158, 164
Leonard, Elmore 312
Lessing, Doris 387
Levy, Geoffrey 366 Lewin, Moshe 335
Lifton, Robert J. 258, 259, 260–1, 262, 263
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) 196–7, 353
Look At It This Way (Justin Cartwright) 252
Lost World (Michael Crichton) 395
Mackendrick, Alexander 45
Madingley Road, Cambridge (Amis home) 28–34, 36–8, 82, 137–8
Maida Vale, London (Amis home) 45, 49
Mail on Sunday 317, 356
Mailer, Norman 193, 199
Majorca 30, 35, 39–41, 68
Manchester Evening News 371
Manchester University 364–5, 371–4, 379
Mann, Sargy 51–2, 77, 87, 89, 93–4, 102, 104, 116, 137, 140, 222, 340
Margain, Hugo 209
‘Martian Sends a Postcard Home’ (Craig Raine) 160–1, 171–2
Martianism 160–1, 171–2, 175, 177, 178
Marvell, Andrew 59, 60
Maschler, Tom 53, 95, 99
Maugham, Somerset 9
McAndrew, Jean and John 24–5
McCrum, Robert 168, 379
McEwan, Ian 119, 129, 154, 168–9, 178, 188–9, 222, 253, 287, 289, 299, 367, 393
McGinn, Colin 16
McKay, Peter 272, 274
McWilliam, Candia 156, 157
media attention 53, 189–90, 271–3, 283–4, 299, 303, 309, 316–17, 326, 356, 364, 366–7, 371
Mengele, Josef 260
Michie, James 7, 8–9
Milestones (Sayyid Qutb) 369–70
Miller, Karl 126
Milton, John 287
Miramax 372–3
Mitas, Chris 223–4, 255–6, 276, 282–3, 291–2, 315
Mitchell, David 383, 387, 391, 393
Montgomery, Bruce 8–9, 19
Moore, Dudley 106
Morrison, Blake 167
Motherunches 128–9
Motion, Andrew 133, 308
Nabokov, Vera 195–6
Nabokov, Vladimir 94, 139–40, 195–7, 353
Nation 346
National Portrait Gallery 156
Nazism and the Holocaust 257, 258–67, 331, 333, 335–6, 346–7
Neidpath, Lord Jamie 151–2, 154–5
New Review 98, 121, 128, 147, 149, 167–8
New Statesman (work and social life) 60, 95, 97, 98, 100, 103, 105, 106–7, 113, 118–19, 126–35, 142–3, 150–1, 153–4, 158–62, 165, 188–9, 318, 319, 332, 340, 342, 348, 376
New York Times 249–50, 251–2, 312
New Yorker 308
Nicholson, Mavis 6, 17–18, 41–2
Nickie (Amis house guest) 28–9, 30, 40
North, Serena 79, 375
Northanger Abbey screenplay 372
nuclear disarmament 225–31, 232–7, 241, 273
Observer 60, 95, 126, 128, 130, 179, 199, 239–40, 369
Old Forge, Shilton (Amis home) 81–2, 115
orphanage, Swansea 22–3
Orwell, George 343
Oxford and Cambridge Club 222
Oxford University 2, 3, 32, 57, 64, 65–7, 72–9, 81–4
Ozick, Cynthia 345–6
Paddington Sports Club 222–3, 291–2, 295, 307
Page, Bruce 150, 151, 159–62
Palestine 342–3
Pallister, Anthony 178
Papineau, David 220, 223, 225, 236–7, 244–5, 250, 254–5, 262–3, 272, 287, 291–2, 320–1, 322, 379
Paradise Lost (John Milton) 287
Paris 164, 165–6, 177–8, 206–7
Parkin, Patricia 286–7
Partington family 27, 300–2, 303–5, 313–14
Penellis, Miss 14–15
Perpignon 70–2
Peterhouse, Cambridge 28–9
Phillips, Antonia 121, 208–9, 210–11, 213–14, 217–22, 247–8, 269–72, 276, 296–7, 299, 309–11, 313, 324, 325, 345, 373, 381
Pilger, John 342–3
Pillars of Hercules (pub) 128, 129–30
Pinewood Studios 45, 46, 163, 217
Pirie, David 103
Ploughman’s Lunch, A (film) 154
poker 119, 254, 348, 360
Polanski, Roman 166
politics 125–6, 142–4, 151, 153–4, 158–9, 182, 199, 225, 234, 256–7, 319, 330–2
see also Islam; Judaism; Nazism; nuclear weapons; Stalinism; World Trade Center attacks
Pont Street, Belgravia (Amis home) 95–6, 97
pornography 106, 114, 132 Pound, Ezra 59, 60 Primrose Hill (Martin’s home with Isabel) 309, 334, 364, 365
see also Gardnor House, Flask Walk (Amis home)
Prince, Peter 97 Princeton 23–6
Private Eye 107
Prudence Farmer Award 160–1
Quantity Theory of Insanity (Will Self) 387
Question Time (BBC) 368
Qutb, Sayyid 369–70
Raine, Craig 119, 126, 142–3, 157, 160, 171–2, 178, 379
Reagan, Ronald 180, 181–2
Reid, Christopher 161, 171
religion 14–16 see also Islam; Judaism
Rodgers, Tobias 156
Ronda 86–7, 88, 110–11, 329–30
Roth, Philip 197–8
Rothschild, Amschel 157, 165, 231–2, 313
Rothschild, Anita 231
Rothschild family 152
Rothschild, Victoria 120
Rukeyser, Bill 29, 31
Rushdie, Salman 169, 222, 223, 226, 252–6, 269, 283–4, 285, 383, 393–4
Russel, Nick 3
Sage, Lorna 119
Said, Edward 344–8
Satanic Verses (Salman Rushdie) 252–3, 283–4
Saturn 3 (film) 163–4, 215–17
Schindler’s Ark (Thomas Keneally) 265–6
Scott, ‘Bummer’ 29
Scruton, Roger 264–5
Seale, Delilah 121, 173–4, 178, 302–3, 309, 317, 379
Seale, Lamorna 121, 173–4, 178
Seale, Orlando 173, 174
Seale, Patrick 173, 174, 302
Self, Will 231, 269, 287, 371, 386–7, 391
sex, subject of 19, 25, 31, 89, 125
Shackleton Bailey, D. R. 54, 86–7, 90
Shakespeare, William 75, 85
Shamir, Yitzhak 346
Shand Kydd, Adam 165 Si and Fran (pre-Oxford friends) 68–9, 70, 101–2
Situation of the Novel, The (Bernard Bergonzi) 168
Slipstream (Jane Howard) 50
Smith, Ali 383, 386, 387, 391, 393
Soames, Emma 120, 121, 122, 145–6, 152, 272, 295
Soames, Jeremy 145–6 Soames, Mary 145–6
Soames, Nicholas 144–7, 294
Soames, Sir
Christopher 145
Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr 333–4, 336, 362
Somerset Maugham Prize 104, 110
Spectator 95, 127, 135, 167, 265
Spenser, Edmund 59, 60
sports 27, 127, 222–3, 359, 379
St Johns, Oxford 2, 3, 65–6, 67
Stalinism 331–2, 333–40
Steiner, George 266
Stewart, Lucretia 150–1, 153–6, 245
Stout, Mira 249–50, 251–2
suicide attempt, mother’s 41–2, 138
Sunday Telegraph 180, 318
Sunday Times 9, 104, 105, 179, 232, 272, 273, 305, 307, 348, 379
Sussex Tutors 56
Sutherland, John 168, 366, 374
Swansea 4, 5–6, 7, 8, 9–15, 16–17, 19, 22–3, 24, 25–6, 27
Swansea University College 5, 6, 8
Swift, Graham 286–7
Szamuely, Tibor 330, 362
Taliban 348
see also Islam
Talk (magazine) 372
Tatler 179, 180
Taylor, D. J. 65, 169, 356
The Times 164
Thomas, D. M. 395
Thorne, Matt 384–5, 391
Thwaite, Anthony 164, 186, 307–8, 317–18
Times Literary Supplement (TLS) 60, 95, 103–4, 110, 113, 121, 126, 128, 147, 167, 209, 211, 264–5, 269, 274
Tognazzi, Ugo 165
Tomalin, Claire 118, 119, 313
Tomalin, Susannah 313
Treglown, Jeremy 121
Trelford, Donald 179, 180
Trilling, Diana 194–5
Trollope family 87
Trotsky, Leon 337–8
truancy 41, 46
Tupper family tree 132–3
Tuscany 79–80, 270, 375
United States of America 23–6, 180–1, 192–4, 199, 210, 257–8, 274, 296, 323, 325, 328, 340–1, 345, 359, 364, 381
Updike, John 197–8
Uruguay 328–9, 356–8, 359, 364, 373
Vanity Fair 253
Vidal, Gore 130, 192–3, 199, 346
Vonnegut, Kurt 193–4, 200
Wain, John 19
Waldegrave, James, 13th Earl of 243
Walker, Tim 271
Walsh, John 75, 157, 248
Waugh, Auberon ‘Bron’ 106–7, 117
Wellfleet, Cape Cod 210, 257–8, 296, 325, 345
Wells, Alexandra ‘Gully’ 77, 78–82, 87, 88, 90–1, 115, 116, 120, 124–5, 192, 375
Wells, Dee 77, 79
West, Fred 301, 313–14
Wheen, Francis 100, 119, 126–7, 132, 141–2, 144, 149, 150–1, 154, 155, 159, 162, 219, 245
Wollheim, Richard 208, 209, 214–15, 221
Wood, Adolf 209
Wordsworth, Jonathan 65, 66–8, 73–4, 75, 83, 84–5
Wordsworth, William 73
World Trade Centre attacks 340–2
Worsthorne, Peregrine 54
Wylie, Andrew 283–6, 372
Yevtushenko, Yevgeny 77
Young, Toby 273
Zanzibar (bar) 152–3
List of Illustrations
Martin at the kitchen table in 24 The Grove, Swansea, aged six. The ms remains unpublished. (Getty)
The Amis family outside 24 The Grove, Swansea, 1956. From left: Philip, Hilly holding Sally, Kingsley and Martin. (Getty)
Kingsley, Martin and Philip playing chess in 53 Glanmore Road, Swansea, 1961. Three months later Kingsley would be offered a Fellowship at Peterhouse, Cambridge and the family would move to Cambridge in September 1961. (Getty)
Martin, 1977, shortly before he completed Success. He had two novels in print and was literary editor of the New Statesman. (Getty)
Martin Amis and Angela Gorgas in Ronda, Spain, 1980.
Martin Amis and Julian Barnes, 1980.
(both images © Angela Gorgas, www.angelagorgas.co.uk)
Martin in the Chesterton Road house he shared with his then wife Antonia Phillips, 1985. ‘ “Unless I specifically inform you otherwise,” [John] Self says, “I’m always smoking a cigarette”. ’ (Money, 1984). (Getty)
Martin in 54a Leamington Road Villas, 1985. ‘What draws me and many others to the sport [darts] . . . is a liking for human variety, specifically a drastically primitive activity in a drastically modern setting.’ (Getty)
Martin working on Time’s Arrow in his ‘study’ in Leamington Road Villas, 1990. (Getty)
Martin on court at the Paddington Sports Club, 1990. ‘I peaked at the age of forty. One legendary summer I performed on the court like a warrior poet … Chris [Mitas] said “Well played, Mart. You’re useless, and if I don’t beat you six-love, six-love next time, I’m giving up the game …” Chris did not give up the game.’ (Getty)
London’s Other Fields. Martin in Highgate Cemetery, 1991. (Getty)
Kingsley and Martin Amis at a literary event, early 1990s. ‘My inner audience consist[ed] chiefly of Larkin and Conquest, especially Larkin. More lately I have added Martin.’ (Kingsley Amis, 1993) (Getty)
The British Book Awards, London, 1995. From left: Isabel Fonseca, Salman Rushdie, Martin Amis. (Getty)
Martin Amis and family at the launch of Madonna’s book The English Roses, London, 2003. From left: Clio, Isabel, Fernanda, Martin. (Getty)