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Lucky Jim
- Penguin Modern Classics
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
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Jim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons. As long as Jim can survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand.
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My favorite book which always makes me laugh
- By The daily cook on 09-02-21
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Lucky Jim
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 9 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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Complete Stories
- By: Kingsley Amis, Rachel Cusk - introduction
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
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The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis' short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling.
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Complete Stories
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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Memoirs
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
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Elegant, provocative and hugely entertaining, Kingsley Amis's memoirs are filled with anecdotes, experiences and portraits of famous friends, family, acquaintances (and a few eminent foes). From his childhood days to Oxford and army life, his travels abroad and his years as a successful novelist, Memoirs offers extraordinary insights into a unique literary life.
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A good storyteller.
- By C E WATSON on 18-06-24
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Memoirs
- Narrated by: Joseph Kloska
- Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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The Riverside Villas Murder
- Penguin Classics
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: John Heffernan
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
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A mummy is stolen from a small-town museum along with some Roman coins and a soaking wet man collapses in 14-year-old Peter Furneaux's living room bleeding from the head. What was a suspected student prank is followed by murder. At first it is impossible to see the connection, but the eccentric Colonel Manton does.
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Murder, sex and growing up - Golden Age crime drama with a twist
- By Graham G Grant on 07-02-21
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The Riverside Villas Murder
- Penguin Classics
- Narrated by: John Heffernan
- Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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The Green Man
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Joe Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
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Like all good coaching inns, The Green Man is said to boast a resident ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious 17th-century practitioner of black arts and sexual deviancy. However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to Underhill's satanic powers. All while the skeletons in Allington's own cupboard rattle to get out.
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A good listen
- By Yvonne W on 01-09-24
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The Green Man
- Narrated by: Joe Dixon
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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Colonel Sun
- James Bond, Book 15
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
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The life of secret agent James Bond has begun to fall into a pattern that threatens complacency…until the sunny afternoon when M is kidnapped. The action ricochets across the globe to a volcanic Greek island, where Colonel Sun Liang-tan of the People's Liberation Army of China collaborates with an ex-Nazi atrocity expert in a world-menacing conspiracy. Stripped of all professional aids, Bond faces, unarmed, the monstrous devices of Colonel Sun....
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Good Story Appalling editing
- By Ross on 19-04-16
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Colonel Sun
- James Bond, Book 15
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Series: James Bond: The Collection, Book 15
- Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
- Release date: 26-10-15
- Language: English
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Kingsley Amis: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation Collection
- I Spy Strangers, I Want It Now, All Free Now based on Girl 20 and more
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove, Gayle Hunnicutt, Iain Cuthbertson, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
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Novelist, poet and critic Kingsley Amis was one of Britain’s greatest postwar writers. A master of comic fiction, he came to fame in 1954, and won the 1986 Booker Prize for The Old Devils. Included in this collection are dramatisations of seven of his short stories and two novels, all imbued with his characteristic wit and social satire. These are complemented by readings of selected correspondence and an interview with Amis himself.
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Kingsley Amis: A BBC Radio Full-Cast Dramatisation Collection
- I Spy Strangers, I Want It Now, All Free Now based on Girl 20 and more
- Narrated by: Christopher Cazenove, Gayle Hunnicutt, Iain Cuthbertson, Tom Watson, Freddie Jones, Peter Jeffrey, Ken Stott, Nigel Anthony, Anna Calder-Marshall, Alan Bennett, Robert Hardy, full cast
- Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 08-08-24
- Language: English
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The Old Devils
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
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Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon.
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Warning! Narrator issue!
- By DW on 30-03-21
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The Old Devils
- Narrated by: David Sibley
- Length: 12 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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The King's English
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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Kingsley Amis' authoritative and witty guide to the use and abuse of the English language. A scourge of illiteracy and a thorn in the side of pretension, Amis provides indispensable advice about the linguistic blunders and barbarities that lie in wait for us, from danglers, four-letter words to jargon and even Welsh rarebit. By turns reflective, acerbic and provocative, The King's English is for anyone who cares about how the English language is used.
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The King's English
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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Take a Girl Like You
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
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Twenty-year-old Jenny Bunn is supremely beautiful and stubbornly chaste, which is why Patrick Standish, an arrogant schoolmaster, wants her so much. This perceptive coming of age novel about a northern girl who moves south, who wants to fit in and yet wants to preserve her principles, challenges our assumptions about the battle of the sexes and classes in Britain. It is a story about 'the squalid business of the man and the woman' and 'the most wonderful thing that had ever happened' to Jenny Bunn.
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First time I've enjoyed this
- By Jonathan Mark Sidaway on 03-09-24
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Take a Girl Like You
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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Difficulties with Girls
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
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Jenny Bunn and Patrick Standish have settled into London life with their troubled courtship long behind them. Patrick works in publishing and Jenny teaches sick children in a hospital. They have reached a certain level of maturity, or so they think. It is not long before they realise their respectability will be severely tested by seductive neighbours with a taste for whisky, the sexually confused Ted Valentine and the literary set of Hampstead.
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Difficulties with Girls
- Narrated by: Kristin Atherton
- Length: 11 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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One Fat Englishman
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
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Brimming with gluttony, booze and lust, Roger Micheldene is loose in America. Supposedly visiting Budweiser University to make deals for his publishing firm in England, Roger instead sets out to offend all he meets and to seduce every woman he encounters. But his American hosts seem made of sterner stuff. Who will be Roger's undoing? Irving Macher, the young author of an annoyingly brilliant first novel? Father Colgate, the priest who suggests that Roger's soul is in torment? Or will it be his married ex-lover Helene? One thing is certain - Roger is heading for a terrible fall.
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I finally read it.
- By David J James on 01-02-24
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One Fat Englishman
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 6 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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That Uncertain Feeling
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Competition is stiff for the position of sub-librarian in Aberdarcy Library. For John Lewis, the situation is complicated by the attentions of daunting and desirable village socialite Elizabeth Gruffyd-Williams, who is married to a member of the local Council. Pursuing an affair with her whilst keeping his job prospects alive is John's predicament, as he finds himself running down Welsh country lanes at midnight in a wig and dress, resisting the advances of local drunks and suffering the long speeches of a 'nut-faced' clergyman.
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Good listen, but chunk of audio from Ch 18 missing
- By tomomo on 04-01-21
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That Uncertain Feeling
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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Stanley and the Women
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
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Just when Stanley Duke thinks it safe to sink into middle age, his son goes insane. As if that wasn't terrible enough, Stanley finds himself beset on all sides by women - neurotic, cantankerous, half-baked or just plain capricious. As one by one they gnaw away at his composure, Stanley wonders whether insanity is not something with which all women are intimately acquainted.
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Funny...
- By Jonathan Mark Sidaway on 12-08-24
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Stanley and the Women
- Narrated by: John Sackville
- Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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Everyday Drinking
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Anthony Howell
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
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For the first time in audio, savour this volume bringing together the best of his three out-of-print works on the art of, and most importantly, practice of drinking. Including Kingsley Amis in Drink, Everyday Drinking and How's Your Glass?, this collection celebrates Amis' comic prose and collected thoughts on the art of drinking, alongside well-tested recipes.
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Everyday Drinking
- Narrated by: Anthony Howell
- Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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You Can't Do Both
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Adam Newington
- Length: 12 hrs
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Robin Davies knows how to look after number one. Raised in a bland suburb of South London in the 1930s, Robin longs for the freedom to do what he wants. When he escapes to study in Oxford, he meets Nancy Bennett, a young woman even less worldly than himself. As Robin stumbles through his rites of passage to adulthood, involving rebellion, self-discovery, sex, war, seduction and the threat of commitment, we come to realise just how far he will go to have his cake and eat it.
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complexity of relationships brilliantly portrayed
- By S. L. Pelling on 18-01-21
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You Can't Do Both
- Narrated by: Adam Newington
- Length: 12 hrs
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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The Alteration
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Michael Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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Hubert Anvil is a 10-year-old boy blessed with the voice of an angel. The Church hierarchy decrees that Hubert should be turned into a castrato - an alteration that could bring Hubert fame and fortune, but would also cut him off from an adult world he is curious to discover. In a dystopian world where Martin Luther never reformed and where the Holy Office's power is absolute, where will Hubert turn if he decides to defy their wishes?
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The Alteration
- Narrated by: Michael Fox
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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Ending Up
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Fergus Craig
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
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At Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage in the English countryside, five elderly people live together in rancorous disharmony. Adela Bastable bosses the house, as her brother Bernard passes his days thinking up malicious schemes against the baby-talking Marigold and secret drinker Shorty, while kindly George lies bedridden upstairs. The mismatched quintet keep their spirits alive by bickering and waiting for grandchildren to visit at Christmas. But the festive season does not herald goodwill to all at Tuppenny-Hapenny Cottage. Disaster and chaos, it seems, are just around the corner.
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Wonderful book, but...
- By PM on 02-01-21
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Ending Up
- Narrated by: Fergus Craig
- Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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The Folks that Live on the Hill
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
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Harry Caldecote is the most charming man you'll ever meet, a convivial academic who devotes his life to others. He is on call when his alcoholic niece falls into strange hands, when his brother threatens to emulate Wordsworth, when his son's lesbian lodger is beaten up by her girlfriend. He endures misplaced seductions, swindles and aggressive dogs just to keep the peace at the King's pub in Shepherd's Hill.
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It takes a bit of getting used to ...
- By Jonathan Mark Sidaway on 30-08-24
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The Folks that Live on the Hill
- Narrated by: David Rintoul
- Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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I Want It Now
- By: Kingsley Amis
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
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The quickest way to get rich is to marry someone rich, but how do you do this if you aren't yet rich? TV chat-show host Ronnie Appleyard is preoccupied with this question as he pursues wealthy heiress Simona Quick over two continents in the company of braying aristocrats, Greek shipping magnates, American dandies and the dreaded mother-in-law-to-be.
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Thin stuff really
- By S. Wragg on 07-06-23
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I Want It Now
- Narrated by: Leighton Pugh
- Length: 8 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 17-12-20
- Language: English
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