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On the London riots

October 5, 2011

From the Architectural Association’s weekly freesheet, Fulcrum.

On cycling

September 28, 2011

Will Self talks about cycling at a recent Intelligence Squared debate at the Royal Geographical Society, above, and at a Q&A with Geoff Dyer and others, below, where he defends going through red lights, and much more besides.

The London Perambulator

September 2, 2011

The brilliant London Perambulator documentary about the “deep topographer” Nick Papadimitriou, and featuring contributions from Will Self, Iain Sinclair and Russell Brand, can now be seen in its entirety here.

Bloomsbury giveaway

August 24, 2011

Bloomsbury has a competition on Twitter to win 10 of Will Self’s newly designed books – for details go to their Twitter page, http://twitter.com/#!/BloomsburyBooks.

New Bloomsbury book covers

August 3, 2011

Greg Heinimann at Bloomsbury has created a series of new book covers for Will Self’s back catalogue to coincide with the paperback publication of Walking to Hollywood (below) in September. The new covers are for My Idea of Fun, The Quantity Theory of Insanity, Cock & Bull, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis, Junk Mail, Grey Area, Great Apes and The Butt.

Read a short report about it in Creative Review here.

Walking to Hollywood paperback

Brixton Speaks

August 3, 2011

Some pictures of the new art work, entitled Brixton Speaks, that Will Self has created (and his nephew, Jack Self) on Brixton’s Electric Avenue and a short news story can be found here.

Bloody flyovers

March 28, 2011

“Sometimes I think I may be losing … my incident room”

Listen to Bomb the Bass’s track 5ml Barrel, from their album Clear, featuring Will Self.

Riddley Walker transcript

February 27, 2011

Pretty much a verbatim transcript of Self’s recent British Library conversation with Russell Hoban about his 1980 masterpiece Riddley Walker, for which Self wrote an introduction to the 20th anniversary edition, can be found here.

The Story of O

November 2, 2010

Listen to Will Self talking about Pauline Réage’s cult book Story of O on Mark and Lard’s Radio 1 show from the 1990s:

JG Ballard on Resonance FM

September 6, 2010

On Wednesday 8 September, from 7pm to 8pm, on the London arts radio station Resonance FM (resonancefm.com), journalist and will-self.com co-manager Chris Hall will be talking about the life and work of JG Ballard with James DC, John Churchill, and Howard Aggregate in the first of a new series of Atomic Bark covering SF, fantasy and horror.

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Will’s Latest Book

Will Self - Elaine
Will Self's latest book Elaine will be published in hardback by Grove on September 5 2024 in the UK and September 17 2024 in the USA.

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

Will’s Previous Books

Will Self - Will
Will
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  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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  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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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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  The Undivided Self
The Undivided Self
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