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1982, Janine by Alasdair Gray; Will Self (Introduction by)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Canons Ser.
Jock McLeish, failed husband, lover and businessman is alone in a hotel room, drinking whisky, fantasizing about sex and contemplating suicide. As he tries to distance himself from reality, his lonely, alcohol-fuelled fantasies are interrupted by a flood of memories, reminding him of his own shortcoming ...Show more
Book of Dave, The by Will Self
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Ink
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 London underwater, spawned a religion? What if one man decided to question life a ...Show more
Cock and Bull by Will Self
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Carol, the heroine of Cock, is extremely dissatisfied with her married life. Realisation that her husband Dan is not the man for her has come too late and insult follows injury as Dan's drinking problem gives way to an obsessive fervour for Alcoholics Anonymous. One evening while Dan is out, Carol disco ...Show more
Death : A Graveside Companion by Joanna Ebenstein; Will Self
$60.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Death is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ritual. The theme of memento mori informs medieval Danse Macabre, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Renaissance paintings of dissected corpses and "anatomical Eves," Gothic ...Show more
Design Faults in the Volvo 760 Turbo : A Manual (PEN 70) by Will Self
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Bo ...Show more
Dorian:An Imitation by Will Self
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In the summer of 1981, aristocratic, drug-addicted Henry Wooten and Warhol-acolyte Baz Hallward meet Dorian Gray. Dorian is a golden Adonis - perfect, pure and (so far) deliciously uncorrupted. The subject of Baz's video installation, Cathode Narcissus, and the object of Henry's attentions, Dorian is la ...Show more
Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe by Will Self
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
A new novella and four new short stories from Will Self (his first since 1999's Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys), which see him return to the disturbing and ruckled terrain of his bestselling first collection. Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe is another warped window on the wibbly-wobbly world ...Show more
Great Apes by Will Self
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Simon Dykes wakes after a night, he discovers that his world has changed. His girlfriend has turned into a chimpanzee, and so has the rest of humanity. Simon, under the delusion that he is 'human', is confined to a psychiatric ward. He becomes of interest to Dr Zack Busner who thinks this case may ...Show more
Great Apes by Will Self
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
After a night of routine debauchery in London's clubland, the artist Simon Dykes falls asleep - only to wake up to find his girlfriend has been transmogrified into a chimp. Indeed the whole of London, though functioning normally, is run and inhabited by chimps. Can the great chimp-doctor, Zack Busner, c ...Show more
How the Dead Live by Will Self
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Scabrous, vicious and unpleasant in life, Lily Bloom has not been noticeably mellowed by death. She has changed addresses, of course, and now inhabits a basement flat in Dulston - London's borough for those no longer troubled by breathing - but if anything her temperament has worsened. Finding it hard t ...Show more
How the Dead Live by Will Self
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A 65-yr-old woman lies dying in a London hospital. As she's in the process of being ferried across to the other world (which turns out to be remarkably like this one), she reflects on her husbands, her children, her entire life.