London Fields
  • Published: 15 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781841593623
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $32.99
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London Fields

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Paperback
11 Feb 2025
Paperback
2 Jul 1999
EBook
1 Feb 2011
Hardback
15 Sep 2014
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There is a murderer, there is a murderee, and there is a foil.

Everyone is always out there searching for someone and something, usually for a lover, usually for love. And this is a love story.

But the murderee - Nicola Six - is searching for something and someone else: her murderer. She knows the time, she knows the place, she knows the motive, she knows the means. She just doesn't know the man.

London Fields is a brilliant, funny and multi-layered novel. It is a book in which the narrator, Samson Young, enters the Black Cross, a thoroughly undesirable public house, and finds the main players of his drama assembled, just waiting to begin. It's a gift of a story from real life...all Samson has to do is write it as it happens.
  • Published: 15 September 2014
  • ISBN: 9781841593623
  • Imprint: Everyman
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 544
  • RRP: $32.99
Categories:

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 London Fields

London Fields, its pastoral title savagely inappropriate to its inner-city setting, vibrates, like all Amis's work, with the force fields of sinister, destructive energies. At the core of its surreal fable are four figures locked in lethal alignment

Peter Kemp, Sunday Times

I love reading novels about the city but this is my favourite. It manages to incorporate the seedy and the middle class Notting Hill side of the capital, all in one glorious unputdownable novel

Phil Daniels, Daily Express

An electrifying writer who likes to shock his fans and share his sharply contemporary concerns... Amis is a maddening master you need to read - the best of his generation

Mail on Sunday
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