Book description
Like all good coaching inns, the Green Man is said to boast a resident
ghost: Dr Thomas Underhill, a notorious seventeenth-century practitioner
of black arts and sexual deviancy, rumoured to have killed his wife.
However, the landlord, Maurice Allington, is the sole witness to the
renaissance of the malevolent Underhill. Led by an anxious desire to
vindicate his sanity, Allington strives to uncover the key to
Underhill's satanic powers. All while the skeletons in the cupboard of
Allington's own domestic affairs rattle to get out too. Kingsley Amis
was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London
School and St John's College, Oxford. After the publication of Lucky Jim
in 1954, Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels, including The
Alteration, winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial Award, The Old
Devils, winner of the Booker Prize in 1986, and The Biographer's
Moustache, which was to be his last book. He also wrote on politics,
education, language, films, television, restaurants and drink. Kingsley
Amis was awarded the CBE in 1981 and received a knighthood in 1990. He
died in October 1995.
