Martin Amis

London Fields

Martin Amis

Nicola Six knows she’s going to be murdered and sets about arranging it. She picks two candidates in a west London pub — a small-time con man and darts obsessive named Keith Talent, and a rich, gentle sad sack named…

Time’s Arrow

Martin Amis

The book runs backward. It opens with a man dying in America and moves the wrong way down his life, narrated by a consciousness riding inside him that can’t control anything and doesn’t understand what it sees. So doctors take…