“You couldn’t escape the war,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs ... Following in the footsteps of authors including Sir Kingsley Amis and Sebastian Faulks, he also wrote Solo ...

The novelist, who wrote Jame Bond novel Solo, moved to Nigeria with his family in 1964, three years before the Biafran War began.

From the Food & Wine archives, Kingsley Amis delves into the history of gin and how moral panic (and a bit of poison) almost killed it. In August 1981, the legendary author Kingsley Amis wrote an ...