One of the lesser honours afforded to the celebrated writer Martin Amis, who died at the weekend aged 73, was perennial status in this Diary column.
As the son of a famous writer, Kingsley Amis, he attracted a certain society interest from a young age. But he broke onto the scene in his own right aged 24 with the publication of his first novel, The Rachel Papers. Ever after Amis enjoyed, or endured, run-ins with our Diary scribes at literary parties across London.
