The lives of two of Britain’s most revered writers, father and son Kingsley and Martin Amis, are due to cross paths in May with the release of the father’s collected letters and the son’s long-awaited autobiography. “To have Kingsley’s chronic hatred of phonies, philistines, tight-fisted drinking companions, bullying officials, mouthy women, pompous barmen, and pretentious artists and have all his opinions raw, unconstrained by any shreds of tact, and his pungent stories about his peers unmediated by the filter of fiction, is a treat. To have the inside story on Martin Amis, the writer who has influenced more prose styles than any other in the last two decades, runs it a close second.” – The Independent (UK)