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Landmark – Jaws: Sharks and Whales

July 10, 2015

Great interview with Will Self, shark expert Gareth Fraser and film critic Ian Hunter on Radio 3 about sharks, whales and the impact of the book and film Jaws.

Northern Lights 2014

March 12, 2015

NLWC 2014 – Will Self: reading from Shark from CIT on Vimeo.

NLWC 2014 – Will Self Keynote Speech from CIT on Vimeo.

NLWC 2014 – Will Self in Conversation from CIT on Vimeo.

At the British Council Literature Seminar

March 3, 2015

Watch Will Self talking about a care home for the novel, rather than death, the meaning of his novella Leberknödel and much more:

Also, Will gave a reading from his latest novel, Shark, which is published in paperback on 5 March by Penguin:

LRB Shark podcast

December 16, 2014

Listen to Will Self give a reading from Shark and taking questions at the LRB bookshop recently, here.

Shark published in US

November 4, 2014

Shark cover US

Shark is published in hardback by Grove Atlantic in the US today, RRP $26:

“May 4, 1970. A week earlier, President Nixon ordered American ground forces into Cambodia to pursue the Vietcong. By the end of the day, four students will be shot dead by the National Guard on the grounds of Kent State University. On the other side of the Atlantic, it’s a brilliant sunny morning after an April of heavy rain, and at the “Concept House” therapeutic community he has set up in the London suburb of Willesden, maverick psychiatrist Dr. Zack Busner has been tricked into joining a decidedly ill-advised LSD trip with several of its disturbed residents. Five years later, sitting in a nearby cinema watching Steven Spielberg’s Jaws, Busner realizes the true nature of the events that transpired on that dread-soaked day, when a survivor of the worst disaster in the U.S. Navy’s history—the sinking of the USS Indianapolis—came face-to-face with the British Royal Air Force observer on the Enola Gay’s mission to bomb Hiroshima.   More...

Will Self reading Shark

October 27, 2014

Newstalk interview

October 3, 2014

Listen to Will Self talking about Shark on Newstalk’s Pat Kenny Show in Ireland here.

More reviews of Shark pt II

October 2, 2014

The Financial Times: “… an intoxicating experience. Self’s powerful command of language animates the intense prose while his dry wit is given a freer rein than in Umbrella. Shark drives remorselessly on; it takes us with it.”

The Mail on Sunday: “Self is on a mission to revive modernist fiction and newcomers will find the text, excised of paragraphs and most punctuation, tough at first. But it is unmatched for vibrancy and sensation, and befits the novel’s raw, disturbing subjects – the traumatised lives that orbit Dr Busner’s therapeutic community.”   More...

Shark reading in Paris

September 26, 2014

Free Thinking: Language

September 24, 2014

Listen to Will Self and the experimental psychologist Steven Pinker talking to Matthew Sweet on Free Thinking on Radio 3 here.

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Will’s Latest Book

Will Self - Will
Will Self's latest book Will is published in hardback by Viking on 14 November 2019.

You can pre-order at Amazon.co.uk.

Will’s Previous Books

Will Self - Phone
Phone
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  Shark
Shark
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Umbrella
Umbrella
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  The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker
The Unbearable Lightness Of Being A Prawn Cracker
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The Undivided Self
The Undivided Self
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  Walking To Hollywood
Walking To Hollywood
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The Butt
The Butt
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  Grey Area
Grey Area
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Junk Mail
Junk Mail
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  Great Apes
Great Apes
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Cock And Bull
Cock And Bull
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  The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
The Quantity Theory Of Insanity
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Amazon.com
The Sweet Smell Of Psychosis
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis
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  My Idea Of Fun
My Idea Of Fun
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The Book Of Dave
The Book Of Dave
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  Psychogeography
Psychogeography
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Psycho Too
Psycho II
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  Liver
Liver
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How The Dead Live
How The Dead Live
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  Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
Tough Tough Toys For Tough Tough Boys
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Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
Dr Mukti And Other Tales Of Woe
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  Dorian
Dorian
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Feeding Frenzy
Feeding Frenzy
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  Sore Sites
Sore Sites
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Perfidious Man
Perfidious Man
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