Experience
  • Published: 29 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529952681
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.99

Experience

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The prize-winning autobiography of the late, great Martin Amis. Now with an introduction from Zadie Smith.

‘Before we face experience, that miserable enemy, let us have some more innocence, just for a while....'

INTRODUCED BY ZADIE SMITH

In this masterwork of literary memoir, Martin Amis tells the stories of his life, both the ordinary and the outlandish — from his bohemian childhood, through fame, fatherhood and divorce, to the news of a cousin brutally murdered, the agonising removal of all his teeth, the discovery of a long-lost daughter and, most poignantly, the death of his father, and fellow novelist Kingsley Amis.


**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily Telegraph
  • Published: 29 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529952681
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Martin Amis

Martin Amis was the author of fourteen novels, two collections of stories and eight works of non-fiction. His novel Time’s Arrow was shortlisted for the Booker Prize, for which his subsequent novel Yellow Dog was also longlisted, and his memoir Experience won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In 2008, The Times named him one of the 50 greatest writers since 1945. Amis died in May 2023.

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Praise for Experience

Remarkable.

Laurence Coupe, Times Higher Education

A scrupulous and candid writer

Guardian

His memoir is dazzling, provocative and mordant

Arthur Smith, The Week

Funny, sad, moving and absolutely riveting

Daily Telegraph

On virtually every page there is a phrase that is blissfully funny and ingenious...never less than compelling

Mail on Sunday

Three times in the reading of this book, the courage, compassion and simplicity of Amis's writing brought me to tears. As a portrait of sustaining love between a father and a son, Experience stands alone among the testaments

The Time
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