Penguin Podcast No18 - Will's World Pt1

This week's podcast focuses on Will Self, prolific author, commentator, journalist and broadcaster, to celebrate the launch of his critically acclaimed new book, The Book of Dave. The podcast features extracts of Will reading from the book (complete with mockney and American accents) at a recent event held at The Bloomsbury Theatre, as well as his ripostes to some of the questions he fielded from the audience. We'll be podcasting this in four episodes, so subscribe now and don't miss a precious word.   
 

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The Book of Dave is based around the rants of Dave Roth, a disgruntled East End taxi driver, who writes his woes down and buries them only to have them discovered 500 years later and used as the sacred text for a religion that has taken hold in the flooded remnants of London.

Will Self's bold book dares to take on the grand themes in the grand manner. It is at once a profound meditation upon the nature of received religion; a love story; a caustic satire of contemporary urban life and a historical detective story set in the far future.

For a sneak preview of London's flooded remains you can visit The Island of Ham or journey to The Ing Archipelago In The Year of Our Dave 523. Just click on the highlighted links!

Praise for the author:

"The master of discomfort" Independent on Sunday

"Hilariously shocking...he has proved that literature can still be great"
Evening Standard

"Prodigiously original and very funny" Observer

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