A collection of short stories by the author of the novellas "Cock and Bull" and the novel "My Idea of Fun". The book won the 1993 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.

The Quantity Theory of Insanity

Literature & Fiction

WILL SELF

Contemporary

Penguin Putnam~trade

paperback, very good= Will Self, always himself, and worthwhile

Grey Area and Other Stories

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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 is another warped window on the wibbly-wobbly world of fear and fun that Self - like some malevolent deity - has fashioned over the years.

Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe

Penguin??Books

After a night of routine debauchery in London's clubland, the artist Simon Dykes falls asleep - only to wake up to find his girlfriend has been transmogrified into a chimp. Indeed the whole of London, though functioning normally, is run and inhabited by chimps. Can the great chimp-doctor, Zack Busner, cure him of his illusion that he's human? A wonderfully funny and clever novel that manages too to evoke great feelings of pity and sadness in the reader, this is in effect a meditation on how we treat animals.

Great Apes

"Feeding Frenzy", Will Self's third collection of journalism and selected writings takes us through the turbulent years 1995-2000. During this period Self surfed the great wave of olive oil which nearly swept British metropolitan culture away, and produced a series of restaurant reviews for "The Observer", whose coruscating criticality led to a cabal of restaurateurs plotting his contract killing. In essays to accompany the work of admired artists such as Marc Quinn, feature articles on rock music and remote places, reviews of cultural phenomena as diverse as voyeuristic television and the Queen Mother, Self has produced what can only be described as a cachinnating cacophony of willful provocation.

Feeding Frenzy

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Gardners Books

'Self's Dorian subtitles itself "an imitation", and that it is exactly what it is, in the full Wildean sense. It flatters its original by taking both subject and style entirely seriously. The locations, characters, plot and epigrams are all transposed from the 1890s to the 1990s...Little is materially altered, but everything is reused - sharpened, blackened and intensified by Self's idiosyncratic remix of Wilde's combination of wit and rage, extravagant debauchery with clinical introspection...Self's reincarnation of Dorian has taken the fag ends of both an English century and an English myth and given them new, troubling and hugely entertaining life' - "Guardian".

Dorian

Quantity Theory of Insanity

DORIAN: AN IMITATION

The Book of Dave

Penguin

Page edges tanned. Shipped from the U.K. All orders received before 3pm sent that weekday.

Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo (Pocket Penguins S.)

History & Criticism

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