Will Self: BUTT Z90 [2008] hardback CPICT The hero of Hanif Kureishi's

The hero of Hanif Kureishi's debut novel is dreamy teenager Karim

from Flers-Courcelette in 1916 to Kursk in 1943

In this magisterial history

During the war

Will Self: BUTT Z90 [2008] hardback CPICT The hero of Hanif Kureishi'sTom Brodzinski is a man who takes his own good intentions for granted. But when he finally decides to give up smoking, a moment's inattention to detail becomes his undoing. Flipping the butt of his final cigarette off the balcony of the holiday apartment he's renting with his family, Tom is appalled when it lands on the head of one his fellow countrymen, Reggie Lincoln. The elderly Lincoln is badly burnt, and since the cigarette butt passed through