Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.

"Amis's backwards world is rigorously imagined. It is a world of pathos and cruel hilarity - but the crux, the test of his vision, is what he does with Auschwitz" -- James Wood Guardian "The devastatingly sustained black irony stands comparison with Swift's A Modest Proposal. It is, I think, Amis's finest achievement to date" Financial Times "Extraordinary - Ironic inversion is essentially a comic device, but its trickery here yields results that are rigorously grave" Independent on Sunday "An icy, hard read - Amis is at his intriguing, powerful and heedful best" Time Out "Amis's most daring and ambitious novel" Daily Telegraph

Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.

"Amis's backwards world is rigorously imagined. It is a world of pathos and cruel hilarity - but the crux, the test of his vision, is what he does with Auschwitz" -- James Wood Guardian "The devastatingly sustained black irony stands comparison with Swift's A Modest Proposal. It is, I think, Amis's finest achievement to date" Financial Times "Extraordinary - Ironic inversion is essentially a comic device, but its trickery here yields results that are rigorously grave" Independent on Sunday "An icy, hard read - Amis is at his intriguing, powerful and heedful best" Time Out "Amis's most daring and ambitious novel" Daily Telegraph

Martin Amis is the author of fourteen novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories and six collections of non-fiction. He lives in New York.

"Amis's backwards world is rigorously imagined. It is a world of pathos and cruel hilarity - but the crux, the test of his vision, is what he does with Auschwitz" -- James Wood Guardian "The devastatingly sustained black irony stands comparison with Swift's A Modest Proposal. It is, I think, Amis's finest achievement to date" Financial Times "Extraordinary - Ironic inversion is essentially a comic device, but its trickery here yields results that are rigorously grave" Independent on Sunday "An icy, hard read - Amis is at his intriguing, powerful and heedful best" Time Out "Amis's most daring and ambitious novel" Daily Telegraph