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A Note on the Author

 

Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including
How the Dead Live
, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, and
The Butt
, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Price for Comic Fiction 2008.

He lives in South London.

By the Same Author

 

F
ICTION

 

The Quantity Theory of Insanity

Cock and Bull

My Idea of Fun

Grey Area

Great Apes

The Sweet Smell of Psychosis

Tough, Tough Toys for Tough, Tough Boys

How the Dead Live

Dorian

Dr Mukti and Other Tales of Woe

The Book of Dave

The Butt

Liver

Walking to Hollywood

 

N
ON-
F
ICTION

 

Junk Mail

Sore Sites

Perfidious Man

Feeding Frenzy

Psychogeography (with Ralph Steadman)

Psycho Too (with Ralph Steadman)

First published in Great Britain 2012

This electronic edition published in 2012 by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

 

Copyright © 2012 by Will Self

 

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‘Apeman’ by Ray Davies © Copyright 1970 Davray Music Ltd. All rights administered

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‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’ (Cassia/Stott) © 1971 Warner Chappell Music Italiana Srl (SIAE).

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‘Don’t Let It Die’ (Smith) – RAK Publishing Ltd. Licensed courtesy of RAK Publishing Ltd.

‘Sugar Me’ by Barry Green and Lynsey De Paul © Copyright Sony/ATV Music

Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. Used by permission

 

‘Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty’ Words and Music by Fred Godfrey,

A. J. Mills & Bennett Scott © 1916. Reproduced by permission of

EMI Music Publishing Ltd, London W8 5SW

 

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A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

 

ISBN 9781408837634

 

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