Lionel Pepperdine is the ferocious antihero of Martin Amis' latest, who proudly changes his surname legally to ASBO—which stands for "Anti-Social Behavior Order." When Lionel wins just under a hundred million pounds in the...

[Read by Steven Pacey]London Fields is Martin Amis' murder story for the end of the millennium. The murderee is Nicola Six, a ''black hole'' of sex and self-loathing who is intent on orchestrating her own extinction. The murderer may ...

The year is 1970, and it's a long, hot summer. In a castle on a mountainside in Italy, half a dozen young lives are afloat on a sea of change, trapped inside the history of the sexual revolution. The girls are acting like boys, the bo...