Will Self

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....

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....

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.

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

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

It's 1988, and Lily Bloom, a 65-year-old American, lies dying of cancer in a London hospital....

4th May, 1970. President Nixon has ordered American ground forces into Cambodia....

Tom Brodzinski finally decides to give up smoking, but a moment's inattention to detail becomes his undoing....

For four characters the 500 quid worry bead in their pocket may be both a blessing and a curse. For elderly Dr Zachary Busner, it's his lifeline to his autistic grandson Ben....

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....

Could modernity be an illness....

He waits, paralysed, acutely conscious, that were he simply to press his thumb right home, it'll be a cartoonish death: That's all folks! as the aperture screws shut forever....

Shiva Mukti is a hardworking and conscientious psychiatrist but not a happy man. Beset by thwarted ambition and sexual frustration, he now finds himself in thrall to the more successful and urbane Dr Zack Busner....

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

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....