Will Self

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

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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....

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

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

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....

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....

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....

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

Will Self takes a 1,000-mile tour of the UK by bus and coach, exploring urban Britain and British identity at a time of flux....

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....

Will Self reads from his introduction to Revelation, the final book of the Bible....