The Rachel Papers - Softcover

Amis, Martin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1250358744 ISBN 13: 9781250358745

Publisher: Picador, 2026

Synopsis

Martin Amis’s first novel, The Rachel Papers, tells the story of Charles Highway and his relationship with his girlfriend in the year before going to university―with a new introduction by Paul Murray.

Charles Highway, a bright, egotistical Oxford student and soon-to-be Great Novelist, spends the eve of his twentieth birthday reflecting on his adolescence―at times stimulating, often embarrassing, and never nearly as debauched as he’d have liked.

Until he meets Rachel Noyes, an elusive, unattainable, manic pixie mystery of a girl whom Charles quickly becomes entranced by. He meticulously draws up battle plans and strategies for how to seduce Rachel, and thus the “Rachel Papers” are born.

Unflinchingly honest, comedically brilliant, and unapologetically original, Martin Amis’s first novel, The Rachel Papers, is a masterful account of the passion and fickleness of first lust―and love.

About this title

About the Authors

Martin Amis (1949-2023) was a British novelist and critic. His work includes fifteen novels, among them Money, London Fields and The Information; two collections of short stories; five books of essays; and the acclaimed memoir Experience.

Paul Murray was born in 1975 in Dublin. He is the author of the novels An Evening of Long Goodbyes, which was short-listed for the Whitbread First Novel Award and the Kerry Group Irish Fiction Award. Skippy Dies (2010) was long-listed for the Booker Prize and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. The Mark and the Void (2015) was the joint winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and was named one of Time’s Top 10 Fiction Books of the year.

Edition details

• Publisher: Picador
• Publication date: 2026
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1250358744
• ISBN 13: 9781250358745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240