It looks like it is going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, a Christmas powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban derangement. Not so much enfolded, as trapped in the bosom of the nastiest, most venal media clique in London, Richard is losing it on all fronts.
It looks like it is going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, a Christmas powdered with cocaine and whining with the white noise of urban dera...
Shiva Mukti is a hardworking and conscientious psychiatrist, who, in the inauspicious surroundings of St Mungo's, does his level best to staunch the flow of mental illness. But Mukti is not a happy man.
Shiva Mukti is a hardworking and conscientious psychiatrist, who, in the inauspicious surroundings of St Mungo's, does his level best to staunch the f...
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? This book offers a historical detective story set in the far future.
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 i...
Henry Wotton, an uneasy homosexual and egregious drug-addict, and his friend Baz have found a remarkable young man, Dorian Gray, the epitome of male beauty. 16 years later Henry and Baz wonder how Dorian remains so youthful.
Henry Wotton, an uneasy homosexual and egregious drug-addict, and his friend Baz have found a remarkable young man, Dorian Gray, the epitome of male b...
In this collection of short stories, Will Self drags his readers into the no-fun hall of mirrors that constitutes his fictional world. This book is a nasty, heartless compendium of the muddy foreshore and the abysmal depths of the human psyche.
In this collection of short stories, Will Self drags his readers into the no-fun hall of mirrors that constitutes his fictional world. This book is a ...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012 For half a century Audrey Death has been in a state of semi-consciousness. Severed from the world of the living after falling victim to Encephalitis lethargica, she has languished in Friern Barnet Mental Hospital. Then, in 1971, maverick psychiatrist Dr Zack Busner arrives. Audrey's experiences of a bygone Edwardian London: her socialist lover, her involvement with the Suffragists, and her work in a munitions factory during the First World War, alternate with Dr Busner's attempts to bring her back to life with a new and powerful drug. His...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2012 For half a century Audrey Death has been in a state of semi-consciousness. Severed from the world of the liv...
