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Experience
  • Published: 29 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529952681
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $28.00

Experience

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The prize-winning autobiography of the late, great Martin Amis. Now with an introduction from Zadie Smith.

'Part memoir, part confessional, [Experience] is a gentle coming to terms about the stuff of life’ Guardian

INTRODUCED BY ZADIE SMITH

In this masterwork of literary memoir, Martin Amis tells the stories of his life, both the ordinary and the outlandish — from his bohemian childhood, through fame, fatherhood and divorce, to the news of a cousin brutally murdered, the agonising removal of all his teeth, the discovery of a long-lost daughter and, most poignantly, the death of his father, and fellow novelist Kingsley Amis.


**ONE OF THE GUARDIAN'S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21st CENTURY**

'Martin Amis is a seriously good writer, and never on better form than now. Experience, the book of his life, may be the book of his life' Daily Telegraph
  • Published: 29 July 2025
  • ISBN: 9781529952681
  • Imprint: Vintage Classics
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 432
  • RRP: $28.00
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Praise for Experience

Remarkable.

Laurence Coupe, Times Higher Education

A scrupulous and candid writer

Guardian

His memoir is dazzling, provocative and mordant

Arthur Smith, The Week

Funny, sad, moving and absolutely riveting

Daily Telegraph

On virtually every page there is a phrase that is blissfully funny and ingenious...never less than compelling

Mail on Sunday

Three times in the reading of this book, the courage, compassion and simplicity of Amis's writing brought me to tears. As a portrait of sustaining love between a father and a son, Experience stands alone among the testaments

The Times

Astonishing… A book that captures a time, with writing that makes it timeless

Sunday Times, *25 Best Non-Fiction Books of the 21st Century*