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A brief and brilliant satire of magazine hacks and fashionistas, The Sweet Smell of Psychosis shows Will Self - a writer acclaimed as "a masterly prose-maker" by London's Sunday Times - at the top of his form. It looks as if it's going to be quite a Christmas for Richard Hermes, powdered... read more

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First Sentence

Two men stood by a window in one of the private rooms of the Sealink Club, and watched a third who was hovering around on the corner of D' Arblay Street.

Authors & Contributors

  1. Will Self (Author)

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