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1	Great apes more books like this by Will Self I received William Burroughs's seminal (in more sense than one!) novel Naked Lunch as a form prize when I was fifteen. I read it with a distinct sense of horripilation, as if the vile secretions it described might ooze through the pages and the orgiastic rituals it depicted were subject to incorporation into my own, fevered imagination ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Book of Dave: A Revelation of the Recent Past and the Distant Future more books like this by Will Self "The Book of Dave" is based around the rants of Dave Rudman, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, who writes his woes down and buries them only to have them discovered 500 years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London. Will Self's big bold book dares to take on the grand themes in the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	My Idea of Fun: A Cautionary Tale more books like this by Will Self An offbeat novel from an exponent of dirty magical realism. When Mr Broadhurst got his psychic teeth into Ian Wharton - aged 11 - he just wouldn't let go. The result is that now Ian's idea of fun isn't quite the sort of thing to be expected of a 30-something marketing consultant in London. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	How the dead live more books like this by Will Self This is the extraordinary story of a 65-yr-old woman who lies dying in a London hospital. As she's in the process of being ferried across to the other world (which turns out to be remarkably like this one), she reflects on her husbands, her children, her entire life. Brilliant and witty as always, Self has this time written a novel that carries a ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.63! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
5	Quantity theory of insanity more books like this by Will Self Mother crops up dead but talking in Crouch End; a cellular telephone scam ends in drugged psychosis; a mental ward captivates then captures an art therapist; motorcycle messengers mystically intuit London traffic flows. These are some of the stories featured in this collection. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Dorian: An Imitation more books like this by Will Self This updated version of Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY brings Dorian into the 1980s and sets him loose in a London full of junkies and whores. see all copies from $2.34! new only from $4.73! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys more books like this by Will Self The New York Times Book Review has called Will Self "a defiant satirist with a peculiar mastery of the vocabulary of modern neurosis", and Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys is a dazzling foray into his funhouse world. Status-conscious New Yorkers navigate the perils of dating along with their very literal "inner children". A man is seduced ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Cock & bull more books like this by Will Self This black comedy is divided into two parts. In the first a woman grows a penis and rapes her husband. In the second a man grows a vagina behind his knee and is then seduced by his doctor. Self was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize for his collection "The Quantity Theory of Insanity. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Psychogeography: Disentangling the Modern Conundrum of Psyche and Place more books like this by Will Self, Ralph Steadman (Illustrator) For those interested in the connection between people and place, the best of the decade long collaboration between literary brat packer Will Self and gonzo illustrator Ralph Steadman. Opening with a dazzling new 20,000-word essay on walking from London to New York, "Psychogeography" is a collection of 50 short pieces written over the last four ... see all copies from $15.00! new only from $20.63! \| first editions \| SVS
10	My Idea of Fun more books like this by Will Self When Ian Wharton signs on as apprentice to an international financier (the Fat Controller), he is initiated into the deepest secrets not only of marketing and money, but the human psyche. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $10.47! \| signed copies \| first editions
11 view cover	The sweet smell of psychosis more books like this by Will Self It looks like it is going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, a Christmas powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement. Not so much enfolded, as trapped in the bosom of the nastiest, most venal media clique in London, Richard is losing it on all fronts. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.46! \| signed copies \| first editions
12 view cover	Grey Area by Will Self This collection of nine stories includes "Between the Conceits," about the eight individuals who control all London, and "Inclusion," about the inexorable side effects of a revolutionary new antidepressant made from Amazonian bee excrement. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	The Sweet Smell of Pyschosis more books like this by Will Self, Martin Rowson (Illustrator) I received William Burroughs's seminal (in more sense than one!) novel Naked Lunch as a form prize when I was fifteen. I read it with a distinct sense of horripilation, as if the vile secretions it described might ooze through the pages and the orgiastic rituals it depicted were subject to incorporation into my own, fevered imagination ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Junk Mail more books like this by Will Self Having produced illustrative cartoons for the "New Statesman" in the early 1980s, Will Self went on to publish spot cartoons for many different journals. The best of these are reproduced in this volume together with features and critical articles written for others. The material is mostly concerned with the politics, culture and ritual of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.69! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Grey Area and Other Stories more books like this by Will Self These stories create a world of oddity superimposed on an ordinary world. They include six controllers running the whole of London life in all its minutiae; a nightmare tour of Soho where everyone professes to be a writer, and the discovery in 1000 years' time of our strange motorway culture. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.61! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16	The Quantity Theory of Insanity: Together with Five Supporting Propositions more books like this by Will Self Combining a wild imagination, a bizarre sense of humor, and a masterful command of language, Self is the newest young literary star to appear out of England. The six short stories include: a man finds his mother walking up a hill in a distant London suburb, although she died ten months ago and much more. Major review coverage. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $16.67! \| signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Dorian more books like this by Will Self This updated version of Oscar Wilde's THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY brings Dorian into the 1980s and sets him loose in a London full of junkies and whores. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	The Butt: An Exit Strategy more books like this by Will Self One of contemporary fiction's most "wickedly brilliant...endlessly talented" ("Publishers Weekly)" satirists delivers a dystopian novel skewering global politics and Big Brother-style government post-9/11. When Tom Brodzinksi tries to give up smoking, he inadvertently sets off a chain of events that threaten to upset the tenuous balance of peace ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $5.99! \| SVS
19 view cover	Dr. Mukti and Other Tales of Woe by Will Self Shiva Mukti is a hardworking and conscientious psychiatrist, who, in the inauspicious surroundings of St Mungo's a central London hospital of more than average decrepitude does his level best to staunch the flow of mental illness. But Mukti is not a happy man, beset by thwarted ambition and sexual frustration, he now finds himself in thrall to the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	Cock and Bull: Twin Novellas more books like this by Will Self Combining a wild imagination, a bizarre sense of humor, and a masterful command of language, Self is the newest young literary star to appear out of England. Cock and Bull tells of a world where sexual characteristics are switched on a nightmare ride where gender isn't so much bent as snapped in two. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $34.45! \| signed copies \| first editions
21 view cover	A Story for Europe by Will Self The "Bloomsbury Birthday Quids" are small editions of short stories by major writers, in the format and style of the "Bloomsbury Classics". Printed on high-quality paper, designed by Jeff Fisher, the books should become collectors' items. This title is "A Story for Europe" by Will Self. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.94! \| signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Sore Sites more books like this by Will Self A selection of the author's iconoclastic weekly columns in Building Design is now made available, decorated with the author's own extremely bad drawings, to those without access to the benefits of the architectural trade press. Alighting on subjects broadly architectural, Self talks you through a trip on an open-top bus in London, a visit to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	Feeding frenzy more books like this by Will Self 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 ... see all copies from $2.34! new only from $12.14! \| signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Perfidious Man more books like this by Will Self, David Gamble Through text and pictures, this book will explores what it is to be a man at the turn of the century, whether masculinity can be said to have any currency any more, and asks "where have all the real men gone?" see all copies from $13.75! signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The End of Everything: Postmodernism and the Vanishing of the Human more books like this by Will Self, Richard Appignanesi (Foreword by) A collection of writing introduced by the ever idiosyncratic Will Self see all copies from $3.37! new only from $3.37! \| SVS

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