The short stories of Kingsley Amis - the great master of post-war comic prose - are dark, playful, moving, surprising and extremely funny. This definitive collection gathers all Amis´s short fiction in a single volume for the first time and encompasses five decades of storytelling. In ´The 2003 Claret´, written in 1958, a time machine is invented for the weighty task of sending a man to 2010 to discover what the booze will taste like. In ´Boris and the Colonel´ a Cambridge spy is unearthed in the sleepy English countryside with the help of a plucky horse, while In ´Mason´s Life´ two men meet inside their respective dreams. The collection spans many genres, offering ingenious alternative histories, mystery and horror, satirical reflections and a devilishly funny attacks. Amis´s stories reveal the scope of his imagination and the warmth beneath his acerbic humour, and they all share the unmistakable style and wit of one of Britain´s best loved writers...