Kingsley Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and knighted in 1990. He died in October 1995.
Also by the Author
Fiction
Lucky Jim
I Like It Here
That Uncertain Feeling
Take a Girl Like You
One Fat Englishman
The Anti-Death League
The Green Man
I Want It Now
Girl, 20
The Riverside Villas Murder
Ending Up
The Crime of the Century
The Alteration
Jake’s Thing
Collected Short Stories
Russian Hide-and-Seek
The Golden Age of Science Fiction (editor)
Stanley and the Women
The Old Devils
Difficulties with Girls
The Folks That Live on the Hill
The Russian Girl
The Amis Story Anthology (editor)
You Can’t Do Both
Omnibus
A Kingsley Amis Omnibus
(Jake’s Thing, Stanley and the Women, The Old Devils)
Verse
A Case of Samples
A Look Round the Estate
Collected Poems 1944-79
The New Oxford Book of Light Verse (editor)
The Faber Popular Reciter (editor)
The Amis Anthology (editor)
Non-fiction
New Maps of Hell: A Survey of Science Fiction
The James Bond Dossier
What Became of Jane Austen? and other questions
On Drink
Rudyard Kipling and His World
Harold’s Years (editor)
Every Day Drinking
How’s Your Glass?
The Amis Collection: Selected Non-Fiction 1954-90
Memoirs
The King’s English
Spectrum I, II, III, IV, V (editor)
The Egyptologists
With James Cochrane
The Great British Songbook (compiled)
Copyright
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