Books

The Cambridge Companion to Martin Amis

Cambridge University Press, 2026

International in scope, this collection features the work of fourteen scholars from five different countries, ranging from established experts to new scholars of Amis’s work.

Available in print and digital from Cambridge University Press, Amazon (US, UK), Waterstones (hardback, paperback), and other booksellers.

The book was spotlighted at a full-day book launch and podcast event in London on 25 August 2026, with panels featuring seven of my fourteen contributors. See the After Amis landing page on The Martin Amis Web for teaser videos, full program, and other materials.

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Review: Peter Lonsdale, Irish Times, August 31, 2026.

Martin Amis: Postmodernism and Beyond

Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

The first book of original essays published on Amis, this edited collection features the work of twelve scholars from six different countries.

“This collection represents a real advance in Martin Amis studies. Twelve informed and exciting essays by an international range of leading Amis scholars and critics explore his novels and literary journalism from a wide variety of aspects and provide a rich source of fresh insights and perspectives. In a theoretically sophisticated but accessible way, they examine the structure, language and significance of his work and its controversial engagements with postmodernity, class, gender and Holocaust. The collection also contains an invaluable bibliography of Amis’s prolific nonfiction. This book is essential reading for all those interested in Amis and contemporary writing.”

Nicolas Tredell, editor of The Fiction of Martin Amis

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Father and Son

Kingsley Amis, Martin Amis, and the British Novel Since 1950

University of Wisconsin Press, 2003

“Father and Son will be important to specialists in the field as well as to students of the twentieth-century novel generally. It provides the only extended treatment of a unique literary genealogy.”

James Diedrick, author of Understanding Martin Amis

“Keulks’ book is holding and absorbing, filled with excellently shrewd and steady analysis of selected novels, essays and interviews set in the context of the status and future of the realistic novel, the transition from modernism to postmodernism, and the existential condition of post-World War II life.”

Dale Salwak, author of Kingsley Amis: Modern Novelist and Kingsley Amis: In Life and Letters

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