BiographyWill Self was born in London in 1961. He graduated from Oxford University and began writing fiction, working as a cartoonist for the New Statesman and City Limits, a London listings magazine. |
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His non-fiction includes Perfidious Man (2000), described by his publisher as 'an examination of modern masculinity' with photographs by David Gamble, and Sore Sites (2000), a collection of writings about architecture. In addition, he has published two collections of journalism, Junk Mail (1995), and Feeding Frenzy (2001), which includes writing from the period 1995-2000. In 2002 he took part in a 'reality art' project in a one-bedroom flat on the 20th floor of a tower block in Liverpool, writing a short piece of fiction while being watched by members of the public. The event was sponsored by Liverpool Housing Action Trust to mark the passing of high-rise housing in the city. His most recent novel is The Butt (2008), winner of the 2008 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize.
A regular broadcaster on television and radio and contributor to and numerous newspapers and magazines, Will Self lives in London with his partner and three children. A book of non-fiction, Psychogeography, was published in 2007, and a selected short stories, The Undivided Self, in 2008.
Will Self Books at Blackwell
The Butt
Will Self
ISBN10: 074759645X ISBN13: 9780747596455
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 04 May 2009
Will Self's uncomfortable and disturbing allegory of the liberal West in the post-9/11 era When Tom Brodzinski finally decides to give up smoking during a family holiday in a weird, unnamed land, a moment's inattention becomes his undoing. More
Liver
Will Self
ISBN10: 0670889970 ISBN13: 9780670889976
Publisher: Penguin Books Australia Viking Australia
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 04 Sep 2008
Ah! Val Charmichael's nose - a treaties could have been written on it; indeed, it looked as if an unseen hand had begun to do exactly that - poking with steely nib at its sub-surface blood vessels and pricking them into the raised, purplish... More
