“A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.”

English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster

Will Self is an English writer, journalist, political commentator and broadcaster. He is known for his fiction and nonfiction work, and for a career that spans novels, shorter fiction, novellas and essays. He has written 11 novels, five collections of shorter fiction, three novellas and nine collections of non-fiction writing. He is also an honorary Professor at Brunel University London, where his interests include psychogeography.