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Red Pyramid and Other Stories by Vladimir Sorokin; Max Lawton (Translator); Will Self (Introduction by)
$38.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Provocative, hilarious, and tender stories about sex, violence, politics from one of the greatest Russian writers of the post-Soviet era. Red Pyramid is a sort of "greatest hits" collection of short stories from across Vladimir Sorokin's career, beginning with juvenilia like "The Pink Tuber," compos ...Show more
Shark by Will Self
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, including 200 killed in the largest shark attack ever ...Show more
The Book of Dave by Will Self
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"The Book of Dave" is Booker-shortlisted author Will Self's dazzling sixth novel. 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 ...Show more
The Book of Dave by Will Self
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
"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 bo ...Show more
The Butt by Will Self
$23.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Tom Brodzinski finally decides to give up smoking during a family holiday in a weird, unnamed land, a moment's inattention becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his last cigarette off the balcony of the holiday apartment, it lands on the head of the elderly Reggie Lincoln, and burns him. Despit ...Show more
The Butt by Will Self
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Tom Brodzinski finally decides to give up smoking during a family holiday in a weird, unnamed land, a moment's inattention becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his last cigarette off the balcony of the holiday apartment, it lands on the head of the elderly Reggie Lincoln, and burns him. Despit ...Show more
The Butt by Will Self
$39.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Tom Brodzinski is a man who takes his own good intentions for granted. But when he finally decides to give up smoking, a moment's inattention to detail becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of the holiday apartment he's renting with his family, Tom is appalled whe ...Show more
The Quantity Theory of Insanity by Will Self
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The fictional world of Will Self is unlike any other. In The Quantity Theory of Insanity, we learn, amongst other things, the dark and terrible secret of Ward 9, why you are right to think that London is full of dead people and that each and every human being is caught up in a colossal balancing act bet ...Show more
The Sweet Smell of Psychosis by Will Self
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Trapped in the most venal media clique in London, Richard is losing it on all fronts. Most of all, he's losing his soul to Bell, a television personality, and his heart to the nubile Ursula Bentley. He is lured on by the fragrance of her perfume and by another, more sinister smell..
Umbrella by Will Self
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community - the so-called Concept House in Willesden - maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum ...Show more
Umbrella by Will Self
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The major new novel by the author of Great Apes, How the Dead Live and The Book of Dave. A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community - the so-called Concept House in Willesden - mave ...Show more