
Goldsmiths Prize Best Book (nominee)
The new novel from Booker-shortlisted Will Self completes his trilogy, begun with Umbrella, and continued with Sharka highly praised exploration of technology and psychopathology from World War I to WikiLeaks, a story of love, death, and madness
Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom, Phone tells the story of two men: Zack Busner and Jonathan DeAth. Busner is a psychiatrist who has made his name through his unorthodox treatment of psychological damage, such as giving the controversial drug L-DOPA to patients ravaged by encephalitis, or administering LSD to World War II PTSD-sufferers. But now Busners own mind is fraying: Alzheimers is shredding his memory and his newest possession is a shiny smartphone given to him by his introverted grandson Ben. Meanwhile, Jonathan DeAth, aka the Butcher, is an MI6 man who remains a mystery even to those closest to him, be it his washed-up old university lecturer father, his jumbling-bumbling mother, his hippy-dippy brothers, his spooky colleagues or multitudinous lovers. All of DeAths acquaintances apply the Butcher epithet to him, and perhaps there is only one person who thinks of him with tenderness, a man he keeps top secret, encrypted in the databanks of his steely mind: Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, highly-trained tank commander, and Jonathan DeAths long-time lover. As Busners mind totters and Jonathan and Gawains affair teeters, they come to face the interconnectedness of all lives, online and off, while an irritating phone continues to ring ring ring
Genre: Literary Fiction
Published to rave reviews in the United Kingdom, Phone tells the story of two men: Zack Busner and Jonathan DeAth. Busner is a psychiatrist who has made his name through his unorthodox treatment of psychological damage, such as giving the controversial drug L-DOPA to patients ravaged by encephalitis, or administering LSD to World War II PTSD-sufferers. But now Busners own mind is fraying: Alzheimers is shredding his memory and his newest possession is a shiny smartphone given to him by his introverted grandson Ben. Meanwhile, Jonathan DeAth, aka the Butcher, is an MI6 man who remains a mystery even to those closest to him, be it his washed-up old university lecturer father, his jumbling-bumbling mother, his hippy-dippy brothers, his spooky colleagues or multitudinous lovers. All of DeAths acquaintances apply the Butcher epithet to him, and perhaps there is only one person who thinks of him with tenderness, a man he keeps top secret, encrypted in the databanks of his steely mind: Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, highly-trained tank commander, and Jonathan DeAths long-time lover. As Busners mind totters and Jonathan and Gawains affair teeters, they come to face the interconnectedness of all lives, online and off, while an irritating phone continues to ring ring ring
Genre: Literary Fiction
Used availability for Will Self's Phone
Hardback Editions
January 2018 : USA Hardback
May 2017 : USA Hardback
Paperback Editions
January 2019 : USA Paperback
March 2018 : UK Paperback
May 2017 : USA Paperback
Audio Editions
January 2018 : USA Audio CD
January 2018 : USA Audio edition

Title: Phone
Author(s): Will Self
Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Availability: Amazon
January 2018 : Canada Audio edition

Title: Phone
Author(s): Will Self
Publisher: HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
Availability: Amazon CA
July 2017 : UK Audio CD

Title: Phone
Author(s): Will Self
ISBN: 1-5100-7643-3 / 978-1-5100-7643-3 (UK edition)
Publisher: Whole Story Audio Books
Availability: Amazon UK
July 2017 : USA Audio edition
July 2017 : Australia Audio edition
July 2017 : UK Audio edition
Kindle Editions
January 2018 : USA, Canada, UK Kindle edition
May 2017 : Australia, UK Kindle edition