Laura Beatty

Angel and demon

Legendary bad boy Martin Amis is passionate and partisan, while Francis Spufford is angelically lucid and informative

  • True Stories

    Francis Spufford

    Yale, pp. 336

  • The Rub of Time

    Martin Amis

    Cape, pp. 356

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