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Tales of Winter on BBC4

January 21, 2013

Will Self is one of the contributors to Tales of Winter: The Art of Snow and Ice on BBC4 tomorrow night at 9pm, talking about Breugel’s Hunters in the Snow.

Question Time

December 11, 2012

Will is going to be on the Question Time panel in Bristol this Thursday on BBC1 at 10.35pm with Justine Greening MP, secretary of state for international development, Stella Creasy MP, shadow home office minister, Lord Bilimoria, founder of Cobra Beer; and Peter Hitchens.

Beyond Kafka’s Wound

October 2, 2012

Will Self discusses a range of issues provoked by his digital essay Kafka’s Wound at thespace.lrb.co.uk with Nicholas Spice and Helen Jeffrey from the London Review of Books, and Dan Franklin, Digital Publisher at Random House.

Is this unique digital essay a proto-form for a new type of deeper engagement with long form content on the web? What can modernism tell us about the digital storm sweeping through our world? How might collaborative digital authorship move forward? What next?

Channel 4 News

September 11, 2012

Watch Will Self on Channel 4 News tonight at 7pm talking about his Booker-shortlisted novel Umbrella.

Will is also going to be on RTE1 on Thursday at 10.45pm. You can also watch him debating the legacy of the Olympics on Newsnight here.

Stephen Hawking’s Grand Design

September 5, 2012

Will Self is going to be part of a panel discussion about physics and cosmology at the Royal Society tonight with Stephen Hawking, Dara O Briain, Athene Donald, Martin Rees and Adam Rutherford. To follow the debate, go to @DiscoveryUK or follow the hashtag #StephenHawking on Twitter.

Stephen Hawking’s three-part series Grand Design begins on September 13 on the Discovery channel.

A Short History of Everything Else

July 13, 2012

Watch Will Self tonight at 11.10pm on A Short History of Everything Else on Channel 4.

Foreign Correspondent: The London Olympics

June 12, 2012

Watch Will Self talking about the London Olympics on Australian TV here. There’s also a transcript here.

This Week

May 10, 2012

Will Self is going to be a guest on This Week tonight on BBC1 at 11.35pm talking about stigma in relation to gay marriage and child sex grooming.

The Minor Character on Sky Arts 1

April 5, 2012

Fun interview between Will Self and David Tennant in the Evening Standard about Will’s short story The Minor Character, which has been turned into a short film on Sky Arts, and which stars David Tennant as “Will”, 12 April, 9pm on Sky Arts 1 (sky.com/arts).

George Galloway on Newsnight

April 4, 2012

To watch Will Self debating George Galloway’s byelection win in Bradford West on Newsnight last night, go here.

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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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Amazon.com
  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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