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Bertie Carvel continues Amis's savagely funny cult novel that defined eighties excess.

Self is struggling with actors, his girlfriend and a phone stalker and has an awful feeling that something even worse is about to happen, in Martin Amis's savagely funny cult novel.

Bertie Carvel continues Martin Amis's electrifying, and savagely funny novel of 1980s excess, featuring the self-destructive anti-hero John Self.

John Self is a consumer extraordinaire.

Rolling between London and New York he closes movie deals and spends feverishly, all the while grabbing everything he can to sate his massive appetites: alcohol, tobacco, pills, pornography and mountains of junk food.

But John’s excesses haven’t gone unnoted. Menaced by a phone stalker, his dangerously excessive lifestyle is about to bring him face-to-face with the secret of his success.

Today: as well as wrestling with the demands of his actors, writer and slippery girlfriend Selina, Self can't kick the feeling that something very wrong is about to happen...

Writer: Martin Amis 
Reader: Bertie Carvel 
Abridger: Katrin Williams
Producer: Justine Willett

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Amis's defining novel of 1980s excess, featuring the self-destructive anti-hero John Self.

Martin Amis's electrifying, and savagely funny novel of 1980s excess, featuring the self-destructive anti-hero John Self, and read by Bertie Carvel.

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