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In 1997, Self married journalist Deborah Orr, with whom he has sons Ivan and Luther. In 2017, Orr and Self separated, and Self was living in a rented flat in Stockwell. [2] Orr died on 19 October 2019. Self has stated that he has abstained from drugs, except for caffeine and nicotine, since 1998. In 2024 he wrote: "I gave up smoking – and ...
Orr was born on 23 September 1962 [2] to Winifred "Win" and John Orr, a factory worker. [4] She was raised in Motherwell, Scotland. [5] She had one brother. [4] She attended Garrion Academy, Wishaw (which later merged with Wishaw High School to form Clyde Valley High School) and the University of St Andrews, from which she graduated with a degree in English in 1983.
Umbrella is the ninth novel by Will Self, published in 2012. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 2012, Will Self's first shortlist nomination, although his 2002 novel Dorian, an Imitation was longlisted for the prize.
Cock and Bull is the title of a volume composed of two novellas by Will Self, which includes the stories Cock and Bull. The two stories are characterized by empty, emotionless, phatic sex; rape; cruelty; and violence. The book was originally published in 1992 by Bloomsbury. [1]
British journalist and broadcaster, married to writer and satirist Will Self. "As a fully paid-up atheist, I need no persuasion that God is neither great nor real. But, at times, as I hear for the umpteenth time the assertion that religion is the cause of all human strife, I start to find myself thinking that blaming religion for war is like ...
The story follows Lily Bloom's encounter with the afterlife after dying from cancer.After being transported to new lodgings near Dalston, accompanied by her Aboriginal spirit guide Phar Lap Jones, her dead 9-year-old son Rude Boy, and a lithopedion foetus, she soon starts to adapt and learn the ways of the dead.
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First published in 1991 in paperback [2] it was the first published collection of the author's short work and includes themes and characters (such as Zack Busner) that are common throughout Self's shorter and longer fiction. Self received an advance of £1,700 for the work. [2]