“With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to our mortality - threats that, while they may also be functions of human error, have become so ubiquitous that we've begun to apprehend them as natural phenomena.”

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.