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Death : A Graveside Companion by Joanna Ebenstein; Will Self
60.00 AUD
Category: Design
Death is an inevitable fact of life. Throughout the centuries, humanity has sought to understand this sobering thought through art and ritual. The theme of memento mori informs medieval Danse Macabre, the Tibetan Book of the Dead, Renaissance paintings of dissected corpses and "anatomical Eves," Gothic ...Show more
Luc Tuymans Birds of a Feather by Will Self
90.00 AUD
Category: Art
This book compiles the most recent work by Luc Tuymans (born 1958), one of Belgium's most eminent painters. Accompanying a 2015 exhibition, "Luc Tuymans: Birds of a Feather," it shows the artist's fascination with the Scottish Enlightenment and its thinkers, who believed in the ability of humans to shap ...Show more
Moonlight Travellers by Will Self, Quentin Blake
35.00 AUD
Category: Travel
‘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 Moo ...Show more
Phone by Will Self
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A five-hundred-quid worry bead - and all I worry about is losing the bloody thing . . . ' Dementia-addled, 78-year-old antipsychiatrist Dr Zack Busner, turfed out of his home by his ungrateful progeny, is no longer certain of anything - except the persistent ringing of the phone in his pocket. Meanwhil ...Show more
Phone by Will Self
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Meet Jonathan De'Ath, aka 'the Butcher'. The curious thing about the Butcher is that everyone who knows him - his washed-up old university lecturer father, his jumbling-bumbling mother, his hippy-dippy brothers, his so-called friends, his spooky colleagues and his multitudinous lovers - they all apply t ...Show more
Shark by Will Self
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
The Butt by Will Self
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When Tom Brodzinski finally decides to give up smoking during a family holiday in a weird, unnamed land, a moment's inattention becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his last cigarette off the balcony of the holiday apartment, it lands on the head of the elderly Reggie Lincoln, and burns him. Despit ...Show more
Umbrella by Will Self
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community - the so-called Concept House in Willesden - maverick psychiatrist Zack Busner arrives at Friern Hospital, a vast Victorian mental asylum ...Show more
Umbrella by Will Self
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The major new novel by the author of Great Apes, How the Dead Live and The Book of Dave. A brother is as easily forgotten as an umbrella. James Joyce, Ulysses Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment in running a therapeutic community - the so-called Concept House in Willesden - mave ...Show more
Why Read by Will Self
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature.
Why Read: Selected Writings, 2001 - 2021 by Will Self
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
From the Booker-shortlisted author of Umbrella, a world-girdling collection of writings inspired by a life lived in and for literature. From one of the most unusual and distinctive writers working today, dubbed "the most daring and delightful novelist of his generation" by the Guardian, Will Self's Why ...Show more