Will Self is the author of many novels and books of non-fiction, including Great Apes, The Book of Dave, How the Dead Live, which was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year 2002, The Butt, winner of the Bollinger Everyman...

"Will Self brings the savage comic sensibility of social satire to warp speed. . . . Bizarre, inventive, dyspeptic, these postmodern fables end as fables should, with a pointed moral, a sting in the scorpion's tale".--"The Boston Globe"....