Will Self

• Oct-1993
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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 of fiction“Cock: A Novelette” is the story of a woman who grows a fully functional penis...

• Oct-1994
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Will Self has established himself as one of the most brilliant, daring, and inventive writers of his generation. My Idea of Fun is Will Self’s highly acclaimed first novel. The story of a devilishly clever international financier/marketing wizard a...

• Oct-1994
• / General Fiction
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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 in the Amazon rainforest turn out to be the most boring people on earth? What if the afterlife is n...

• Feb-1996
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"Drawing on the banality and comic potential of modern life, this collection of short stories ""brilliantly explores the fine line between sanity and insanity, hitting uncomfortably close to home"" (""USA Today"")."...

• May-1998
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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 of perspective in a most disturbing fashion. After a night of routine, pedestrian debauchery, traip...

• Mar-1999
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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 Self as “a wayward genius,” and you can find out why when you observe the author’s pitiless di...

• Sep-1999
• / Literary
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A brief and brilliant satire of magazine hacks and fashionistas, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis shows Will Self -- a writer hailed by Time as “brilliant, iconoclastic . . . one of Britain’s most original young writers” -- at the top of his form. ...

• Jun-2001
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Will Self possesses one of the greatest literary imaginations of any writer working today. How the Dead Live is his most extraordinary book yet -- a novel that will challenge, entertain, and truly astonish.Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted...

• Jul-2003
• / General Fiction
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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-80s art scene, which for liberated homosexuals were a golden era of sex, drugs and...

• Feb-2005
• / General Fiction
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A new novella and four new short stories from Will Self (his first since 1999's Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys), which see him return to the disturbing and ruckled terrain of his bestselling first collection. Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe ...

• Jun-2006
• / Literary
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Will Self is one of the most important British novelists of his generation, and he is as acclaimed in the UK for his outstanding, daring journalism as he is for his fiction. Now finally available in America, Junk Mail is an original selection of piec...

• Mar-2007
• / General Fiction
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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, Arabs, and American tourists to sex, Prozac, and cabby lore--that captures all of his frustrations...

• Apr-2008
• / General Fiction
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“The writing crackles with stupendous imagery . . . Savage and stylish.” -- Financial TimesWhen Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace in a not-too-...

• Oct-2008
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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 organs: the liver. Set in locales as toxic as a London drinking club and mundane as a clinic in an order...

• May-2009
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• Nov-2010
• / General Fiction
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Since the release of his first story collection in 1991, Will Self has been hailed as a master of the short story. Now, for the first time, selected stories from his five highly praised collections will be available in one volume, introduced by Ri...

• May-2011
• / Literary
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When Will reconnects with his childhood friend, the world suddenly seems disproportionate. Sherman Oaks, scarcely three feet tall at forty-five, and his ironically sized sculptures?replicas of his body varying from the gargantuan to the miniscule?spa...

• Oct-2012
• / Literary
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Will Self, whom the Los Angeles Times calls "the hottest young novelist in England," demonstrates his razor-sharp wit in these nine new stories. Self’s method depends upon taking an ordinary aspect of the world and then pushing it to its limit in f...

• Oct-2012
• / General Fiction
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• Jan-2013
• / Literary
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Radical and uncompromising, Umbrella is a tour de force from one of England’s most acclaimed contemporary writers, and Self’s most ambitious novel to date. Moving between Edwardian London and a suburban mental hospital in 1971, Umbrella exposes t...

• Nov-2014
• / Literary
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4th May, 1970. President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia. By the end of the day four students will be shot dead in the grounds of Kent State University. On the other side of the Atlantic, maverick psychiatrist Dr Zack Busne...

• Jan-2018
• / Literary
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Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom, PHONE tells the story of two men: Zack Busner and Jonathan De’Ath. Busner is a psychiatrist who has made his name through his unorthodox treatment of psychological damage, such as giving the controve...

• Nov-2019
• / Psychological Suspense
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• Sep-2024
• / Literary
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The Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella writes his most American novel yet -- a brilliant portrait of a 1950s housewife, based on the life of the author’s mother, and an exploration of sexual freedom and sublimated desireWill Self is one of the m...