Will Self is the author of The Quantity Theory Of Insanity, shortlisted for the 1992 John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize and winner of the 1993 Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, Grey Area, Cock & Bull, My Idea Of Fun, Junk Mail, The Sweet Smell Of Psychosis, Great Apes, Tough, Tough Toys For Tough, Tough Boys, Dorian, and How The Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002. He lives in London.
Genres: Literary Fiction
Novels
Cock and Bull (1992)
My Idea of Fun (1993)
Great Apes (1997)
How the Dead Live (2000)
Dorian (2002)
The Book of Dave (2006)
The Butt (2008)
Entirely Women (2010)
Walking to Hollywood (2010)
My Idea of Fun (1993)
Great Apes (1997)
How the Dead Live (2000)
Dorian (2002)
The Book of Dave (2006)
The Butt (2008)
Entirely Women (2010)
Walking to Hollywood (2010)
Collections
Slump (1985)
The Quantity Theory of Insanity (1991)
Grey Area (1994)
Ten (1996) (with Margaret Atwood, T C Boyle, Nadine Gordimer, David Guterson, Jay McInerney, Candia McWilliam, Patrick Süskind and Tobias Wolff)
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys (1998)
Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe (2004)
The Undivided Self (2007)
Liver (2008)
Will Self's Collected Fiction: Volume I (2014)
Will Self's Collected Fiction: Volume II (2014)
The Quantity Theory of Insanity (1991)
Grey Area (1994)
Ten (1996) (with Margaret Atwood, T C Boyle, Nadine Gordimer, David Guterson, Jay McInerney, Candia McWilliam, Patrick Süskind and Tobias Wolff)
Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys (1998)
Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe (2004)
The Undivided Self (2007)
Liver (2008)
Will Self's Collected Fiction: Volume I (2014)
Will Self's Collected Fiction: Volume II (2014)
Chapbooks
Novellas
Short Stories
Non fiction
Junk Mail (1995)
Nicola Hicks (1998)
The Idler 25 (1999)
Sore Sites (2000)
Perfidious Man (2000)
Feeding Frenzy (2001)
Psychogeography (2007)
Psycho Too (2009)
George Condo: Mental States (2011) (with David Means)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker (2012)
Moonlight Travellers (2019) (with Quentin Blake)
Will (2019)
Why Read (2022)
Nicola Hicks (1998)
The Idler 25 (1999)
Sore Sites (2000)
Perfidious Man (2000)
Feeding Frenzy (2001)
Psychogeography (2007)
Psycho Too (2009)
George Condo: Mental States (2011) (with David Means)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker (2012)
Moonlight Travellers (2019) (with Quentin Blake)
Will (2019)
Why Read (2022)
Anthologies containing stories by Will Self
Short stories
Profit and Lust (1950) | |||
The End of the Relationship (1994) |
Awards
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Will Self recommends

W9 and Other Lives (1996)
Carlo Gébler
"Gébler's pellucid prose style is the perfect instrument with which to probe a reader's heart."

London Orbital (2002)
Iain Sinclair
"Sinclair's recent work represents some of the most important in contemporary English letters'."

Old Men in Love (2007)
Alasdair Gray
"He's the very best Alasdair Gray that we have, and we should cherish his works accordingly."
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