The social club for everyone professionally concerned with literature and the publishing industry

Martin Amis by John Walsh

Martin Amis was a one-man multiverse. A cool, sulkily unsmiling, hilariously ironical, perma-smoking, laser-brained novelist, critic, essayist, media pundit and reliable controversialist, he took the English language to new levels of baroque extravagance. He turned...
Michael Lindsay, 1938–2022

Michael Lindsay, 1938–2022

We are very sad to report that Michael Lindsay, the Authors’ Club’s Honorary Treasurer, died peacefully on Wednesday night, at the age of 84, after a short illness. Michael was our longest-standing member, having joined in 1959, when the Club had its own premises at 2...