A work full of his trademark hypersensitive invention ... vast inventiveness ... glittering

Independent on Sunday

Dazzling and discomfiting ... a supremely gifted writer and one of our most brilliant and iconoclastic public intellectuals

GQ

'Only a writer with Self's panache can hope to pull it off ... the flashes of brilliance make being inside his various heads an exciting, if occasionally alarming, experience'

Independent

'A familiar mix of inspired satirical observations and his trademark discursiveness ... Self displays sudden turns of phrase that can have breathtaking emotional resonance'

The Times