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1) Umbrella
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For half a century Audrey Death has been in a state of semi-consciousness. Severed from the world of the living after falling victim to encephalitis lethargica, she has languished in Friern Barnet Mental Hospital. Then, in 1971, maverick psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner arrives. Audrey's experiences of a bygone Edwardian London: her socialist lover, her involvement with the Suffragists, and her work in a munitions factory during the First World War, alternate...
2) Phone
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Meet Jonathan De'Ath, aka 'the Butcher'. The curious thing about the Butcher is that everyone who knows him - his washed-up old university lecturer father, his jumbling-bumbling mother, his hippy-dippy brothers, his so-called friends, his spooky colleagues and his multitudinous lovers - they all apply this epithet to him quite independently, each in ignorance of the others. He knows everyone calls him 'the Butcher' behind his back, but he also knows...
3) Will
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Viking
Pub. Date
2019.
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Will's mother's hokey homily - 'Waste not, want not' - hisses in his ears as he oscillates furiously on the spot, havering on the threshold between the bedroom and the dying one, all the while cradling the plastic leech of the syringe in the crook of his arm. Oscillating furiously, and, as he presses the plunger home a touch more - and more - he hears it again and again: 'Waaaste nooot, waaant nooot!', whooshing into and out of him, while the blackness...
4) Shark
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Clipper Audio
Pub. Date
2014
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Set a year before the action of his Booker-shortlisted 'Umbrella', Will Self's new novel continues its exploration of the complex relationship between human psychopathology and human technological progress; and like 'Umbrella', weaves together multiple narratives across several decades of the twentieth century to produce a fiendish tapestry depicting the state we're enmeshed in.
7) Psycho too
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
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A second take of the very best of Will Self's columns for the Independent on the oddities of place, with Ralph Steadman's trademark illustrations.
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Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013
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For half a century Audrey Death has been in a state of semi-consciousness. Severed from the world of the living after falling victim to encephalitis lethargica, she has languished in Friern Barnet Mental Hospital. Then, in 1971, maverick psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner arrives. Audrey's experiences of a bygone Edwardian London: her socialist lover, her involvement with the Suffragists, and her work in a munitions factory during the First World War, alternate...
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Short Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2017
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From the INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED author of the modern classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities Vital Little Plans weaves a lifetime of ideas from the most prominent urbanist of the twentieth century into a book that is indispensable to life in the twenty-first.