Will Self

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....

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....

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.

Could modernity be an illness....

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....

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

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....

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....

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....

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

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

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....