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Forget expensive digital detox retreats, here's what happened when I tried it at home

Digital detoxes are having a moment thanks to White Lotus; but do you need to go to a fancy retreat to do one? Madeleine Spencer tries it at home

Evening Standard

Zadie Smith: Martin Amis riled me with questions like 'Women not funny. Discuss?'

Smith was among the famous faces who paid tribute to Amis at his memorial service

Evening Standard

Can you beat the authors? Take the bumper books quiz of 2023!

Answer fiendish literary questions from Bernardine Evaristo, Nina Stibbe, Jonathan Coe and more. Plus, spot the 10 books hidden on our festive ice rink

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Sebastian Faulks on his futuristic 16th novel and rewriting 007: ‘I stopped watching Bond when Sean Connery left’

The ‘Birdsong’ author has struggled to shake off the ‘historical fiction’ label, but his latest novel, ‘The Seventh Son’, is set in a futuristic fertility clinic. He tells Claire Allfree about human evolution, his former life as the Indy’s first literary editor, and what he borrowed from Bond author Ian…

The Independent UK

Amis but not a Ms? Something’s amiss

Brief letters: The Garrick Club | Cheesy memories | Ofsted’s snapshots | Ignorance of Liz Truss | Am I bothered? Not any more

The Guardian - UK

‘I didn’t think it was possible to be a novelist’: Julian Barnes on literature, loss – and his late friend Martin Amis

The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago

The Guardian - UK

Friday essay: 'the problem is that my success seems to get in his way' – the fraught terrain of literary marriages

“It’s true to say that writers are selfish people,” the novelist Elizabeth Jane Howard once said. “But it’s not quite enough of an excuse.”

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King’s Birthday Honours: Literary giant Martin Amis knighted before his death

The author of 13 novels was knighted for his service to literature

Evening Standard

Literary giant Martin Amis given knighthood before death at 73

He was given the honour for services to literature.

The Independent UK

Revealed: Martin Amis to be awarded knighthood four weeks after dying from cancer

Exclusive: The acclaimed author was approached about the accolade shortly before his death in May

The Independent UK

Martin Amis: A prolific writer who cast a caustic eye on society

His dark and wry dissections of modern culture redefined British literature in the 1980s

The Independent UK

Martin Amis: literary wunderkind who ‘blazed like a rocket’

A “blazing, once-in-a-generation talent”, Martin Amis “provoked, inspired and outraged readers ... across a literary career that set off like a rocket, and went on to dazzle, streak and burn for almost 50 years”, said Boyd Tonkin in The Guardian.

The Week

5 best books by Martin Amis

Alex Peake-Tomkinson on the late author’s career-defining works

Evening Standard

Martin Amis’s difficult relationship with literary London

One of the lesser honours afforded to the celebrated writer Martin Amis, who died at the weekend aged 73, was perennial status in this Diary column.

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‘Cool, tender and sweet Martin Amis was in another world’, Ian McEwan says in tribute

Ian McEwan has paid tribute to fellow author Martin Amis, who died from cancer of the oesophagus at his home in Florida at the weekend

The Guardian - UK

‘Damn, that fool can write’: how Martin Amis made everyone up their game

He exploded into the tweedy world of literature, a young, pouting and outrageously brash crusader for prose. Our writer remembers her encounters with the novelist, whose smarts and chutzpah confounded his peers

The Guardian - UK

‘Stylist extraordinaire’: worlds of literature and politics pay tribute to Martin Amis

Fellow writers including Salman Rushdie express their admiration for British novelist who has died aged 73

The Conversation

The pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, Martin Amis's pyrotechnic prose captured life's destructive energies

Martin Amis, pre-eminent novelist-critic of his generation, has died at the age of 73. His dazzling, pyrotechnic prose dominated the world of English writing from the mid-1970s through the fin de siècle.

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Martin Amis, acclaimed British novelist and London scenester of '80s and '90s, dies at 73

Martin Amis, the acclaimed British author best known for “Money,” “London Fields” and a dozen other novels of flash, style and substance, who was also a fixture of the London literary scene, has died at age 73.

WEKU

Martin Amis, British author of era-defining novels, dies at 73

The influential novelist and nonfiction writer died in Florida of esophageal cancer. His novels, such as Money, The Information and London Fields, came to define British life in the late 20th century.

The Guardian - UK

Martin Amis obituary

Writer whose acrobatic wit defied gravity and solemnity and who epitomised literary fame in an age of glitz and hype

The New Daily

‘A towering legacy’: British novelist Martin Amis dies of cancer at 73

Martin Amis, a British writer of dark comedic novels, has died from cancer at the age of 73, his agent has confirmed.

Evening Standard

Martin Amis: Celebrated British novelist dies aged 73

Amis was the acclaimed author of books such as Money and London Fields

Wales Online

Acclaimed author Martin Amis dies aged 73

The novelist and screenwriter - who grew up in Swansea where his father Kingsley taught at the university - was "one of the most discussed" writers of the past 50 years, The Booker Prize said

France 24

Martin Amis, British novelist famed for dazzling prose style, dies at 73

British novelist Martin Amis, who brought a rock ‘n’ roll sensibility to his stories and lifestyle, has died. He was 73.

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