Dead Babies

By Martin Amis

Dead Babies, a hilarious Agatha Christie parody and Martin Amis's second novel, was deemed his "most incendiary" (the BBC).

Within the quiet walls of the Appleseed Rectory, a gorgeous five-bedroom, three-story home in rural England, anything goes: the drugs are consumed with gusto, the booze flows like water, and the sex is near constant and deliciously debauched.

When six uppity twenty-somethings gather at the rectory for a careless weekend away, things quickly go awry. And when someone named Johnny begins leaving threatening letters around the house, the group is thoroughly shaken--no one has any clue who this "Johnny" could be.

A dizzying whirlwind of a novel, Dead Babies is a lurid, sharp, and darkly hilarious indictment of the horrifying vices and shameless self-indulgences of privileged youth.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1250358728
• ISBN13: 9781250358721
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Picador USA
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.2"