Phone - Will Self

Meet Jonathan De'Ath, aka 'the Butcher'.

The curious thing about the Butcher is that everyone who knows him - his washed-up old university lecturer father, his jumbling-bumbling mother, his hippy-dippy brothers, his so-called friends, his spooky colleagues and his multitudinous lovers - they all apply this epithet to him quite independently, each in ignorance of the others.

He knows everyone calls him 'the Butcher' behind his back, but he also knows that they don't know the only real secret he maintains, encrypted in the databanks of his steely mind: Colonel Gawain Thomas, husband, father, highly-trained tank commander - is Jonathan De'Ath's longtime lover.

Paperback, 2017

William Self is an English novelist, reviewer and columnist. He received his education at University College School, Christ's College Finchley, and Exeter College, Oxford. Self is known for his satirical, grotesque and fantastic novels and short stories set in seemingly parallel universes. He most recently spoke at Freud Museum's 2019 conference on "Nostalgia Today".

Format: Paperback