Join one of Britain's most acclaimed and influential journalists, Will Self, for a discussion of his Booker-shortlisted novel, Umbrella. Spanning a century, Self's polyphonic, epoch-hopping modernist novel--400 pages of unbroken stream of consciousness--charts the story of Audrey Death, who at the end of World War One falls victim to a lethal epidemic, and is only awoken decades later when Dr Zack Busner discovers a cure. "In these culturally straitened times," writes John Banville, "few writers would have the artistic effrontery to offer us a novel as daring, exuberant and richly dense as Umbrella." Self will be joined in conversation by author and journalist, Martin Amis.

Will Self is the author of six short-story collections, a book of novellas, eight novels, and six collections of journalism. His work has won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Aga Khan Prize for Fiction. Umbrella was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.  

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