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.

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.

Will Self's uncomfortable and disturbing allegory of the liberal West in the post-9/11 era

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.

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.

Will Self's provocative, shocking and completely unique novel of psychosis and contemporary malaise

Shark turns upon an actual incident in WWII - mentioned in the film Jaws - when the ship which had delivered the fissile material to the south Pacific to be dropped on Hiroshima was subsequently sunk by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 900 men, including 200 killed in the largest shark attack ever recorded. When the Creep, an American resident in the 1970s at the therapeutic community in north London supervised by maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner, starts to tell rambling stories of thrashing about in the water while under attack from sharks, Busner has to decide whether they are...

Hrdinou vypravěčsky hravého, jazykově vynalézavého Deštníku je psychiatr Zachary alias Zack Busner, postava, jež se objevuje i v autorových dřívějších povídkách. Srdcem příběhu je setkání hlavního hrdiny psychiatra Zacharyho s pacientkou Audrey v jednom severolondýnském ústavu pro duševně choré v šedesátých letech dvacátého století. Audrey je považována za duševně nemocnou mylně, ve skutečnosti trpí záhadnou spavou nemocí, z níž se ji Busnerovi podaří načas probudit. Self se inspiroval slavnou knihou britsko-amerického neurologa Olivera Sackse...

A large-format, signed Collector's Edition of this literary and artistic meditation on the theme of night travel from two of our greatest contemporary creative talents. `The moon drives everyone mad - you know that, well enough. But this is no lycanthropic or otherwise spooky metamorphosis: it's far stranger than that...' When Quentin Blake embarked on creating a set of new drawings on fantasies of travel, even he had not envisaged a series so sombre, so haunting, as Moonlight Travellers. These watercolour journeys through unknown landscapes capture, with unmatched skill, all the mystery...