Experience (2000) Posters of this memoir’s book jacket, with Amis as a small child nonchalantly smoking a cigarette, were plastered all over the Tube. Some critics really went to town, reviewing the author’s personality rather than the book – not least Julie Burchill. “What a clogged-up, clod-hopping, plate-juggling great show-off he is,” she wrote. This first memoir from Amis nonetheless movingly covered his relationship with his father – the comic novelist Kingsley Amis – and the disappearance of his cousin Lucy Partington in 1973 (who was murdered by Fred West) as well as Amis’s discovery of an unknown daughter, Delilah....