Cuando el novelista Martin Amis y su familia vivieron en Mallorca: un viaje en el tren de Sóller a Palma". The attention he receives, and the passions his fiercely vivid novels, stories and essays provoke, remains far beyond any of his contemporaries or those of younger authors, none of whom has yet managed to unseat him as the current father of English letters.

Throughout, he offers razor sharp takes on such subjects as:American politics: ‘If history is a nightmare from which we are trying to awake, then the Reagan era can be seen as an eight year blackout. It's hard to ignore the feeling that Amis is not writing at his best, but his talent for comic invention is undimmed. The first public reading of the then just completed version of The Pregnant Widow occurred on 11 May 2009 as part of the Norwich and Norfolk festival. In a famous hatchet-job, the novelist Tibor Fischer remarked that " Yellow Dog isn't bad as in not very good or slightly disappointing. Elsewhere, Amis was especially careful to distinguish between Islam and radical Islamism, stating that: "We can begin by saying, not only that we respect Muhammad, but that no serious person could fail to respect Muhammad – a unique and luminous historical being .His father, novelist Kingsley Amis, was the son of a mustard manufacturer's clerk from Clapham, London; [4] his mother, Kingston upon Thames-born Hilary ("Hilly") Ann Bardwell, [9] was the daughter of a Ministry of Agriculture civil servant. And then there is the laic philosopher, who observes human life from the highest altitudes, held aloft by vast infusions of erudition and experience. Over the next half century – in fourteen more novels, two collections of short stories, eight works of literary criticism and reportage, and his acclaimed memoir, Experience – he established himself as the most distinctive and influential prose stylist of his generation.

Amis also discusses, at length, the murder of his cousin Lucy Partington by Fred West when she was 21.Between the death of the one and the birth of the other, much water will flow by, a long night of chaos and desolation will pass. Heavy Water', portrays the exhaustion of working-class culture, and 'State of England' its weird resuscitation. The first was along the lines I expected, having read London Fields, but not finding it particularly special. That may not seem like much, but if you try one of these stories you'll find that it's more than enough. Straight Fiction" ( Esquire, 1995) in which everyone is gay, apart from the beleaguered though increasingly vocal 'straight' community.