"I don’t write fiction for people to identify with and I don’t write a picture of the world they can recognise. I write to astonish people.”

Will Self is a satirist, novelist, journalist, cultural critic and one of Britain's most provocative literary voices. Honorary Professor of Contemporary Thought at Brunel University London, Self has written more than two dozen books spanning satirical fiction, memoir, and non-fiction. His novel Umbrella was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and his books have been translated into more than twenty languages. A longtime contributor to The Guardian, the London Review of Books, Harper's Magazine and The New York Times, he has been a columnist for The Observer, The Times, The New Statesman, the Evening Standard, and The New European.

His most recent novel, The Quantity Theory of Morality, is a savage satire of the English middle class and Anglo-European liberal elite. It follows his novel Elaine, which draws on the diaries of his late mother — part autofiction, part feminist portrait of a woman crushed by post-war domesticity.

"Self is the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" ― Guardian