The Gift

First edition. 8vo. Pp. [vi], 312, [1]. Shamrock green cloth, lettered in silver to spine; crimson endpapers. Jacket design by Julian Humphries with an illustration of an appliquéd picnic hamper by Michael Fisher, and rear panel blurb by Will Self and Jonathan Franzen. Complete with publisher's red wraparound band.

Signed by Author to blank preliminary page.

A black comedy on the competitive nature of gift-giving. "The Gift is a profound, honest novel about contemporary male angst, revealing its explosive – and very funny – combination of naked vulnerability and irrepressible competitiveness." –Elena Lappin, The Guardian