Every night in the month of April we'll be jumping from one literary London plaque to another, connecting each plaque to another literary figure commemorated elsewhere in London with a nugget of literary trivia. Creative collaborations, romantic entanglements, feuds, places-in-common, the links will vary, but over the course of 30 days we'll have covered poets, biographers, novelists, humourists, critics, thriller writers and more until we have arrived full circle back at plaque number one!
26. Kingsley Amis, novelist, critic and poet
of the Angry Young Man school, father of Martin Amis and writer of Lucky Jim
(1954) one of the first Campus Novels– fiction set against a university
backdrop. Lucky Jim won the Somerset Maugham Award for Fiction and cemented
Amis's reputation as one of the finest post-war comic novelists. Amis was born
in Clap ham in south London as was…
We'll be back tomorrow night with our next
Plaque Tiddlywink. In the meantime, here's where to find tonight's plaque at 18 Buckingham Gardens, Norbury…
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