Amis's "Memoirs" make fascinating, and very funny reading. Not so much an autobiography as a series of sketches about people he'd known - with no punches pulled.

His favourite music, as it happens, was (mainly) white jazz from the 1920s and 1930s. He hated Charlie Parker and all that went after him - which shows some small-mindedness and actual lack of real appreciation of music to me - but heigh-ho, that's just me...