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Book of Dave, The by Will Self
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Ink
What if a demented London cabbie called Dave Rudman wrote a book to his estranged son to give him some fatherly advice? What if that book was buried in Hampstead and hundreds of years later, when rising sea levels have put London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life a ...Show more
Cock and Bull by Will Self
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
Carol, the heroine of Cock, is extremely dissatisfied with her married life. Realisation that her husband Dan is not the man for her has come too late and insult follows injury as Dan's drinking problem gives way to an obsessive fervour for Alcoholics Anonymous. One evening while Dan is out, Carol disco ...Show more
Dorian:An Imitation by Will Self
$26.95 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+
In the summer of 1981, aristocratic, drug-addicted Henry Wooten and Warhol-acolyte Baz Hallward meet Dorian Gray. Dorian is a golden Adonis - perfect, pure and (so far) deliciously uncorrupted. The subject of Baz's video installation, Cathode Narcissus, and the object of Henry's attentions, Dorian is la ...Show more
Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe by Will Self
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
Feeding Frenzy by Will Self
$26.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
This collection of journalism and selected writings takes us through the turbulent years 1995-2000. Articles address topics such as rock music and remote places, and reviews of cultural phenomena as diverse as voyeuristic television and the Queen Mother.
Great Apes by Will Self
$29.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
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, c ...Show more
Liver (Stories) by Will Self
$55.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
These remarkable new pieces from Will Self each feature the largest of our internal organs: the liver, in varying states of disease and decay. In "Foie Humane" we go inside a Soho drinking club, the denizens of which live in a highly stylised yet emotionally dead state of excess. "Prometheus" tells the ...Show more
Liver: and Other Stories by Will Self
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A moving, hilarious and scabrous portrayal of egos, appetites and addictions, "Liver" is an extraordinary examination of lives out of control and beyond saving by the pre-eminent chronicler of our neuroses and our times.
My Idea of Fun by Will Self
$23.95 NZD
Category: Fiction
Talks about psychosis and contemporary malaise.
Phone by Will Self
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A five-hundred-quid worry bead - and all I worry about is losing the bloody thing . . . ' Dementia-addled, 78-year-old antipsychiatrist Dr Zack Busner, turfed out of his home by his ungrateful progeny, is no longer certain of anything - except the persistent ringing of the phone in his pocket. Meanwhil ...Show more
Psychogeography by Will Self
$55.00 NZD
Category: Cultural Studies
Provocateurs Will Self and Ralph Steadman join forces in this post-millennial meditation on the vexed relationship between psyche and place in a globalised world, bringing together for the first time the very best of their 'Psychogeography' columns for the "Independent". The introduction, 'Walking to Ne ...Show more