Book description
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one main
ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both
shaken and stirred when they are joined by professional Welshman Alun
Weaver (CBE) and his wife, Rhiannon. 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.
