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. Review A copy should be given out with every bus pass. John Sutherland –The TimesA brilliant novel. It is sadly comic and comically sad Anthony BurgessHe was a genuine comic writer probably the best after P.G. Wodehouse ... He had a lasting influence and was a very good novelist John MortimerA bloody funny lovely bloody book... A genius at full throttle –Financial TimesIn these explicit days Mr Amis is the laureate of the unsayable the literary it man –Sunday Telegraph From the Inside Flap Malcolm Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one ambition left in life: to drink Wales dry. But their routine is both shaken and stirred when professional Welshman Alun Weaver (CBE) and his wife Rhiannon join them. About the Author Kingsley Amis was born in south London in 1922 and was educated at the City of London School and St Johns College Oxford. After the publication ofLucky Jim in 1954 Kingsley Amis wrote over twenty novels including The Alteration winner of the John W. Campbell Memorial AwardThe Old Devils winner of the Booker Prize in 1986 and The Biographers 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.