Will Self

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....

From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature....

Henry Wotton, gay, drug addicted, and husband of Batface, the irrefutably aristocratic daughter of the Duke of This or That, is at the center of a clique dedicated to dissolution....

Moving between Edwardian London and a suburban mental hospital in 1971, Umbrella exposes the 20th century’s technological searchlight as refracted through the dark glass of a long-term mental institution....

Written with the passion of an obsessive, Nicotine addresses a lifelong addiction, from the thrill of the first drag to the perennial last cigarette....

Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a new collection of corkscrewed tales from the author of Great Apes....

As Busner's mind totters and Jonathan and Gawain's affair teeters, they come to face the interconnectedness of all lives, online and off, while an irritating phone continues to ring....

Lily Bloom is an aging American transplanted to England who has lost her battle with cancer and lies wasting away at the Royal Ear Hospital....

An original selection of pieces from Will Self's nonfiction and journalism that will introduce American listeners to Self as a literary journalist par excellence....

Maverick psychiatrist Dr. Zack Busner has been tricked into joining a decidedly ill-advised LSD trip on a fateful day in history....

The inmates of Craven House have their foibles, but most are indulgently treated by an author whose world view has yet to harden from scepticism into cynicism....

It looks like it's going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement....

This collection brings together history, science, philosophy and comedy to explore our age-old search for meaning....

From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed 'the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation' by the Guardian, Will Self's Why Read is a cornucopia of thoughtful and brilliantly witty essays on writing and literature.

An addiction memoir like no other, Will echoes the best of Will Self's psychedelic fiction, and is one of the most eloquent depictions of the allure of hard drugs ever written....

A British writer named Will Self goes on a quest through LA freeways and eroding English cliffs, skewering celebrity as he attempts to solve a crime: who killed the movies....

These are stories that delve into the modern psyche with unsettling and darkly satiric results....

Learn the dark secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and much more....

Could modernity be an illness....

A demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman writes a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice. Hundreds of years later, it spawns a religion....