News about Martin Amis

Kingsley and Martin Amis adopted very different literary styles. Kingsley used straightforward prose, which meant that his works, such as the great campus novel Lucky Jim, were accessible to all. Martin took his lead from modernism, preferring ornate language, inventive, sometimes implausible plots and savage humour. Martin sent the proof of his first and most straightforward novel, The Rachel Papers, to his father. According to Martin, he sent a brief, charming note saying he thought it was 'enjoyable and fun and all that'.

Janet Street-Porter, 77, has been married and divorced four times. There is no rhyme or reason to the people I've fallen for, as well as a clear pattern. They've been much older than me (19 years), much younger than me (20 years ago), and one husband was actually the same age as me (20 years old). These guys may have little in common on the surface, but there is one common trait: they were more than able to accommodate me when we first met (at least in the early days of our friendship). I am not a natural person to be with: there is an unhealthy obsession with work, and I come from a large circle of friends. I'd do something for them and place my partner second and place them second.

Rudolf Höss, the Nazi in charge of Auschwitz's camp, borrows heavily from the 2014 book of the same name by renowned British author Martin Amis, whose film is based on the true life tale of the Nazi in charge of Auschwitz. It reveals how Höss, his wife, and five children lived just outside the walls of the concentration camp, where more than one million Jews were killed. Jonathan Glazer's latest film - with five Oscar nominations under its belt - has been a hit among critics.

BRIAN VINER: I hear a lot about the complaint that "nothing worth going to the theater for" is something I hear a lot, and it's often impossible to refute, but it has no water at all this week, as we welcome two of the Academy Award contenders. I don't think either of them will be contaminated with the Oscar, which, according to sports analysts, would be Oppenheimer's to lose. Both of them will be worthy winners, especially The Zone Of Interest, a disturbing movie about the Holocaust. Unique, since the mass extermination of Jews, Hitler's abhorrent 'Final Solution,' is shown as a glowering yet mostly distant backdrop, while an ostensibly positive story of family life unfolds in the foreground. The film, shot in 1943, focuses on Rudolf Hoss (Christian Friedel), his materialistic wife Hedwig (Sandra Huller), and their five children. They live in a great deal of confidence, just over the wall from the concentration camp where he works with icy efficiency.

Rudolf Höss (pictured right with his wife and five children), who lived just outside the walls of Nazi-occupied Poland's concentration camp. The Oscar-nominated film also takes inspiration from Martin Amis' 2014 book of the same name. Jonathan's book gives an enthralling glimpse at the cultural and idyllic lifestyle embraced by Nazi families side-by-side with some of the world's most horrific atrocities. Höss, Europe's Jewish people's longest-serving commandant, oversaw the physical destruction of Europe's Jewish population, the Final Solution. Brigitte's daughter was photographed right after the war and center (the girl on the left) as a child. The house is shown inset.

The Zone of Interest, a late Martin Amis' adaptation of the novel, tells the tale of how Rufolf Höss, the commandant Auschwitz-Birkenau, lived just outside the death camp.

A wife shows off her garden and children playing in a paddling pool as their father watches, and the children are enjoying bustling activity in a well-appointed dining room. They are scenes that reveal the terrifying mundanity of family life, which took place just a stone's throw away from a mass murder. The Zone of Interest, a late Martin Amis' adaptation of the novel, tells the tale of how the commandant Auschwitz-Birkenau lived just outside the death camp, where more than 200,000 Jews were killed in the Holocaust. Rufolf Höss lived in a modest home with his wife Hedwig and their five children in relative domestic bliss as he directed mass slaughter. Hedwig is seen enjoying the vegetables in his garden in Hedwig's trailer, while Höss - dressed in a white jacket - is seen enjoying his children's games. Jonathan Glazer, whose previous films include the 2000 hit Sexy Beast and horror Under the Skin, was released in the United States last month and is set to reach UK screens in February.

OLIVER HOLT CHIEF SPORTS WRITER: Everton deserved to be punished for breaching the Premier League's profit and sustainability laws, but it is impossible to deny it. The guidelines were designed to shield clubs from their own recklessness, but Everton knew what the laws were because they were unable to comply with them and they knew a penalty was coming. In several ways, the league's decision to fine Everton for failing to meet its target could even be seen as a welcome improvement if it is a sign that it is about to combat the defunct profligate spending that disfigures so many clubs and makes our league seem as if it is a place of poverty and profligacy. All of this, unfortunately, is weakened by the fact that Everton was given a 10-point deduction for a minor infringement, which dropped them into the league's bottom three, raising concerns about motives rather than answering questions about justice.

Leading Nazi Rudolf Höss with his wife and five children (left) was just outside Auschwitz-Birkenau, where more than 500,000 Jews were killed in the Holocaust. A new film that will be released in the United Kingdom later this year tells the tale of the Auschwitz commandant's stay in Nazi-occupied Poland with his family, as well as the picnics (depicted right) they enjoyed at the local river. The Zone of Interest is loosely based on Martin Amis' 2014 book of the same name, who died earlier this year. It is directed by Jonathan Glazer, who made Sexy Beast and Horror Under the Skin in 2000. Under the Skin is a film directed by German actor Christian Friedel (inset bottom and right) and Sandra Hüller as Höss and his wife Hedwig. It does not include scenes from Auschwitz's underground life, but rather focuses on Höss and his families' everyday lives.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The King and Queen's visit to Paris has sparked a lot of media attention, including the unexpected revelation that a 180ft-long bench would be used so every visitor will sit at Charles' table. However, France's daily newspapers, including France Inter, BFMTV, and CNews, had no mention of another British visitor to President Macron on Sunday. Keir who?

This week, everyone is talking about one-downmanship, a term coined by Martin Amis to refer to competitive gloom.

The moorings off Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, have provided an idyllic setting for creative people who lived on the bohemian side for the past 30 years. However, their way of life is under attack, and many of the residents believe that measures to deny them mooring licenses and increasing maintenance fees could make them destitute and destroy the community's forever.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: The failure of King Charles to make the Duke of Norfolk a Knight of the Garter sparked controversy among society eyebrows. Despite the Coronation's stewardship. So why is he missing out? According to a person, he and the King didn't get a keen eye on Coronation planning initially, with Edward Fitzalan-Howard wanting to be more progressive in changing the ceremony. Despite the induction of two new members on Monday, there are currently six open positions. The tenth Duke of Norfolk, amiable Ned, is expected to have a garter eventually, according to the courters.

Martin Amis, one of Britain's most influential writers of his generation, died of esophageal cancer at the age of 73 at his Florida home last month. The honour was revealed on King Charles III's first birthday list, just one day before his death. Mr Amis was born in Oxford in 1949 and attended schools in Mallorca and Cambridge before attending Oxford University. The knighthood for the author of 'Money,' a London satire on consumerism, comes 33 years after his comedic novelist father, Kingsley, was honoured by Charles' mother, late Queen Elizabeth II.

Why are so many streets in Italy called Senso Unico?' My father asked after turning left at the sign. A man approaching us flashed his lights and honked his horn. Italians are so emotional,' Dad said as the other driver yelled expletives and gesticulated out of his window. It was day three of our five-day road trip. I was nine years old, and it was the most exciting thing that had ever happened to me. In Italy, a foreign country, without my mother, sisters, or brother, I spent five days alone with my beloved father [Jacob, Baron Rothschild].

In a ceremony bestowing the festival's top prize, Justine Triet took home the coveted Palme d'Or for her film Anatomy of a Fall at the Cannes Film Festival on Saturday. The French director's big win was the third time a woman's film was recognized with the Palme d'Or for the third time. Sandra Hüller, the anatomy of a Fall actress, plays a writer who is unsure of her husband's death in a enthralling, tightly planned French courtroom drama that puts a marriage in jeopardy.

I recall being engrossed, with utmost pleasure and vigor in a pinball machine that night. As my brother approached and said, 'Quick, Mart,' I said out of order, as I was. 'The dad's telling us the whole lot.' We sat at a restaurant table and mumbled with him about the realities of life. I had been in a sodden schoolyard at the age of five when a friend explained them to me. And my reaction then was, I should say, universal: my mother would never let my father - the bastard! Do it to her. Well, in 1962, I came home with all of the right thoughts and feelings: my father and my mother all loved each other, and my brother Philip and my sister Sally were both the source of that. I have no doubt that I love your mother.' We will always be together,' adamantly.' And I didn't doubt it.

Perhaps you missed out on an invitation to the Coronation, or long ago abandoned hope of being asked to a Buckingham Palace garden party - or of being bidden there to receive an MBE or other gong? But don't be concerned: you will soon be able to holiday with Queen Camilla - not really in an adjoining room, but a yard or two from the country house to which she retreats for a break from the constant toll of life in the public eye. For those who are interested, I can tell you that her neighbor, who shares a private drive with Camilla, has just been given permission to use one of his outbuildings as a holiday cottage. This is likely to enrage the Queen, who has always seen gorgeous, Grade II-listed Ray Mill House (right), which has enviable views of the River Avon in Wiltshire as a place of complete sanctuary.

EPHRAIM HARDCASTLE: King Charles has given signals that he is not coercioning Andrew out of Royal Lodge to the smaller Frogmore Cottage (pictured). To make Andrew palatable, the monarch would have to shift from a rent-free mansion to a house that will cost him £360,000 per year. Also, if they had to terminate his 75-year lease early, the Crown Estate would have to compensate him. Charles has also continued the tradition of his late mother's generously allowing occasional meals to be carried over to the Windsor Castle kitchens.

Martin Amis, a well-known British author, died of cancer at the age of 73. He died on Friday at his Lake Worth, Flordia, and his wife, writer Isabel Fonseca, said esophageal cancer caused him. Mr. Amis wrote 15 books during his career, most notably in the 1980s and 1990s.

I asked a man I know well if there were any romantic comedy books he might recommend. 'I really don't read that stuff,' he spluttered, joking tensely.' And from the pact of his talk, you might imagine that I've pleaded for assistance in scoring drugs on the dark web - or something even more nefarious. However, I think he has read romance comedies. Surely, Martin Amis's The Rachel Papers and Nick Hornby's About A Boy, which he adores, both qualify? Also, an intellectual omission of having never read Pride And Prejudice is nothing to be proud of.

Authors writing blurbs for 25 years, according to Louise Willder, who has been writing blurbs for 25 years, authors writing their own books tend to ramble on, miss the point, or fail in its primary function: to sell the book.

British author Patricia Nicol has rounded up a selection of the best books on exam results including Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason and Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls

Onstage in New York, a new video clip shows the moment audience members tackled a knifeman moments after he stabbed Salman Rushdie on stage, while the author remains on a ventilator and faces the possibility of losing an eye today. People are heard screaming and gasping as a dozen audience members rushed to the stage and crowd around the insurgent who had been led to the ground by a police officer in the three-minute clip. Meanwhile, several audience members also appear to surround the author and help him hold a banner for the occasion as the event's concerned visitors continue.