WRITER’S NOVEL HOME RECEIVES A MAKEOVER

Author Martin Amis is famous for his 1980s novels Money and London Fields and in 2008 was named one of the UK’s 50 greatest writers since 1945.

But the 67-year-old author and intellectual also likes stirring up public controversy. His barbed comments about the royal family, religion, Katie Price, the elderly and even many of his own friends, have made him – as much as his books – front page news.

He was at it again recently. Amis described Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as lacking education, humour and a grasp of the British national character, which set social media alight as Corbynistas rallied to his support.

Amis witnessed a different sort of blaze earlier this year when his New York home, which he bought for $2.5 million, caught fire.

Despite the inferno, Amis decided to stick with his New York property, even though he could have returned to England and bought his old home, which is now for sale.

It’s near London’s Regent’s Park in the celebrity-strewn neighbourhood of Primrose Hill and has five bedrooms, three reception rooms, four bathrooms and a self-contained studio apartment. The property also has an amazing southfacing balcony and roof terrace which offers panoramic views across the capital’s skyline.

But following a recent renovation there are few signs of Amis’s touches, which used to include a pinball machine and an area in the garden he set aside for his writing table.

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