Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Great apes Great apes Will Self Painter Simon Dykes awakens after a night of drinking to find the world is populated by monkeys. He is taken to a psychiatric hospital where monkey doctors try to cure him of his delusion that he is … OL15927216W
How the Dead Live How the Dead Live Will Self Scabrous, vicious and unpleasant in this life, Lily Bloom has not been improved by death. She has changed addresses, of course, and now inhabits a basement flat in Dulston - London's borough for thos… OL16475628W
Liver Liver Will Self A volume of interconnected satirical works is set in locales ranging from a London drinking club to an orderly Swiss city and considers the impact of disease on the body's largest internal organ. OL18171814W
Phone Phone Will Self The life of a psychiatrist affected by Alzheimer's intersects with the life of an emotionally isolated MI6 agent in unexpected ways. OL19728997W
Umbrella Umbrella Will Self It is 1971, and Zachary Busner is a maverick psychiatrist who has just begun working at a mental hospital in suburban north London. As he tours the hospital's wards, Busner notes that some of the pat… OL19960167W
Vital little plans Vital little plans Will Self,Jane Jacobs,Samuel Zipp,Nathan Storring A survey of Jacobs's career in forty short pieces that have never been collected in a single volume: essays, articles, speeches, interviews, and lectures, covering her work in urban and economic plan… OL20040663W
Junk mail Junk mail Will Self Everything that makes Will Self's fiction so arresting and original is in evidence here in this collection of his best articles, book reviews and interviews from the Observer, the Guardian, the Indep… OL20399W
My idea of fun My idea of fun Will Self When the young Ian Wharton first meets Mr Broadhurst, he is completely unaware of the influence he will come to exert over his life as 'The Fat Controller' - a constant companion and confidant and al… OL20401W
The book of Dave The book of Dave Will Self GENERAL & LITERARY FICTION. 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 hundr… OL20935821W