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It's 1988 and Lily Bloom, a 65-year-old American lies dying of cancer in a London hospital. As her two daughters buzz around her and the nurses pump h...
Recently having abandoned his R.D. Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community -- the so-called Concept House in Willesden -- maver...
One of Will Self’s best-loved novels, newly reissued by Grove, The Book of Dave begins when East End cabdriver Dave Rudman’s wife takes from him h...
A Memoir
Unflinching, intoxicating, heartfelt, and propelled by an exceptional energy, Will is the long-awaited memoir by Will Self, whose works have been shor...
Some people lost their sense of proportion, others their sense of scale, but Simon Dykes, a middle-aged, successful London painter, has lost his sense...
Reissued
When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of the influence he will come to exert over his life as 'The Fat Contro...
Selected Stories
This new volume of work from the British satirist draws selected short stories from his five previous collections, including The Quantity Theory of In...
Will Self's DORIAN is a "shameless imitation" of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray that reimagines the novel in the milieu of London's early-80...
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a new collection of cork-screwed tales from the author of Great Apes. The Guardian (London) describes Will ...
A Novella
A brief and brilliant satire of magazine hacks and fashionistas, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis shows Will Self—a writer hailed by Time as “brillian...
Grey Area, like all of Will Self's fiction, is funny, bizarre and disturbing. From a London where every waiter is an aspiring writer to a supply teach...
Feeding Frenzy - Booker nominee Will Self's dazzling collection of journalism and writing 'Self often writes non-fiction as though it were fiction, to...
Walking to Hollywood is a dazzling triptych - obsessive, satirical, elegiac - in which Will Self burrows down through the intersections of time, place...
A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future
When East End cabdriver Dave Rudman's wife takes from him his only son, Dave pens a gripping text--a compilation about everything from the environment...
Carol, the heroine of Cock, is extremely dissatisfied with her married life. Realisation that her husband Dan is not the man for her has come too late...
The new novel from Booker-shortlisted Will Self completes his trilogy, begun with Umbrella, and continued with Shark—a highly praised exploration of...
What is there is only a limited amount of sanity in the world and the real reason people go mad is because somebody has to? What if a mysterious tribe...
“The writing crackles with stupendous imagery . . . Savage and stylish.”—Financial Times When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadve...
A Cautionary Tale
Ian Wharton is a rather sad, lonely boy, growing up in a small town in Sussex, dominated by his over-sexual mother. He becomes the familiar of Samuel ...
Will Self has been praised by The New York Times Book Review as "a high-powered satirical weapon" and Cock & Bull is one of his most outrageous works ...
It is 1981 and the Royal Broodmare, as Henry Wotton calls her, is about to be married. Wotton, a homosexual, and his friend Baz have found a remarkabl...
An Exit Strategy
Tom Brodzinski is a man who takes his own good intentions for granted. But when he finally decides to give up smoking, a moment's attention to detail ...
May 4th, 1970. A week earlier President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia to pursue the Vietcong. By the end of the day four stud...
A fascinating and unsettling anthology of 32 science fiction short stories in tribute to the prophetic dystopias of New Wave sci-fi pioneer, and liter...
Selected Writings 2001 – 2021
'Will Self may not be the last modernist at work but at the moment he's the most fascinating of the tradition's torch bearers.' New York From one of t...
In this collection of four linked stories, newly reissued by Grove, Will Self takes aim at the disease and decay that target the largest of human orga...
Provocateurs Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces in this post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship between psyche and place in a globa...
' Elaine is not just a serious work of art, but an unexpected act of filial generosity' Guardian Standing by the mailbox in Ithaca, New York, Elaine t...
Everything that makes Will Self's fiction so arresting and original is in evidence here in this collection of his best articles, book reviews and inte...
Chega as livrarias com nova capa, tradução revista e atĂ© novo tĂtulo estas duas novelas de Will Self que surpreenderam a crĂtica e o pĂşblico, e ...
Originally a novel by Will Self, Great Apes is a hilarious, disturbing and dazzlingly original take on man's place in the evolutionary chain. When Tur...
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In this brief and humorous satire, a man trapped in the bosom of the most venal media clique in London is losing his heart to a magazine columnist, ab...
Siren
Politics and Culture 1880-1920
A multi-authored volume exploring the evolving concept of 'Englishness' over the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, covering both cultural...
In the title story, a woman working in a terrifyingly neutral environment takes anal neatness to rare extremes. In another tale, Self considers an atm...
Folded page panoramas: one side "North"; verso "South."...
Bringing together two formidable talents for the first time, this literary and artistic collaboration on the theme of night travel features original a...
A large-format, signed Collector's Edition of this literary and artistic meditation on the theme of night travel from two of our greatest contemporary...