Umbrella audio book
To buy an unabridged audio book version of Umbrella, by Whole Story Audiobooks, which has also produced audio versions of The Butt, Liver (read by Will), The Book of Dave (also read by Will) and How...
View ArticleOn Umbrella’s US publication
This will be the first major publication of one of my books in the US that I haven’t crossed the pond for – and so salutations to my American readers; I write to you from my London fastness, tucked up...
View ArticleUmbrella US reviews
Grove has just published Umbrella in the States, and early reviews have been as effusive as they were in the UK last year. The Boston Globe: “The result is page after page of gorgeously musical prose....
View ArticleUmbrella – An introduction and ‘The Rules’
For US readers of Umbrella, here’s Will on how he researched his latest novel, which is a good introduction: “Whenever I reach the end of a novel – and I mean the very end, when the second set of...
View ArticleLive video chat
Will Self is going to conduct a live video chat with the LA Times today at 10am Pacific (6pm GMT) about his new novel, Umbrella, and many other things besides. Watch again here.
View ArticleMore Umbrella press
Here’s an interview with Will Self in the National Post of Canada, and another one for the Daily Beast. Also, there’s a review of Umbrella at the NPR, which hails it as a “modernist masterpiece”, and...
View ArticleUmbrella playlist
In largeheartedboy.com’s Book Notes series, Will Self has created – and discusses – a music playlist that relates to his most recently published book, Umbrella, from the Kinks’ “Ape Man” to “Don’t Let...
View ArticleKCRW radio interview
Listen to an interview with Will Self about Umbrella on KCRW (of Santa Monica College) here.
View ArticleAt the crossroads
Read an interview Will gave for Gramophone magazine here – along with Iain Sinclair and Chris Gollon – focusing on the “crossroads of music, literature and art”.
View ArticleUmbrella
Umbrella, was published in the UK by Bloomsbury on 16th August 2012. You can buy online at Amazon.co.uk. Umbrella was published in the USA by Grove Press on January 8th 2013 – You can buy online at...
View ArticleMan Booker (photobomb) winner …
According to the Independent, Will Self was the winner of the “best photobomb in the history of the Bookers” with this picture.
View ArticleUmbrella audio book
To buy an unabridged audio book version of Umbrella, by Whole Story Audiobooks, which has also produced audio versions of The Butt, Liver (read by Will), The Book of Dave (also read by Will) and How...
View ArticleOn Umbrella’s US publication
This will be the first major publication of one of my books in the US that I haven’t crossed the pond for – and so salutations to my American readers; I write to you from my London fastness, tucked up...
View ArticleUmbrella US reviews
Grove has just published Umbrella in the States, and early reviews have been as effusive as they were in the UK last year. The Boston Globe: “The result is page after page of gorgeously musical prose....
View ArticleUmbrella – An introduction and ‘The Rules’
For US readers of Umbrella, here’s Will on how he researched his latest novel, which is a good introduction: “Whenever I reach the end of a novel – and I mean the very end, when the second set of...
View ArticleLive video chat
Will Self is going to conduct a live video chat with the LA Times today at 10am Pacific (6pm GMT) about his new novel, Umbrella, and many other things besides. Watch again here.
View ArticleMore Umbrella press
Here’s an interview with Will Self in the National Post of Canada, and another one for the Daily Beast. Also, there’s a review of Umbrella at the NPR, which hails it as a “modernist masterpiece”, and...
View ArticleUmbrella playlist
In largeheartedboy.com’s Book Notes series, Will Self has created – and discusses – a music playlist that relates to his most recently published book, Umbrella, from the Kinks’ “Ape Man” to “Don’t Let...
View ArticleKCRW radio interview
Listen to an interview with Will Self about Umbrella on KCRW (of Santa Monica College) here.
View ArticleAt the crossroads
Read an interview Will gave for Gramophone magazine here – along with Iain Sinclair and Chris Gollon – focusing on the “crossroads of music, literature and art”.
View Article