Various original cartoons by Self, including drawings made by him as a young boy. A number of comics. Also includes Self's unpublished satirical work 'The Secret Biography of Margaret Thatcher' (1988).
Fiction in draft, largely word-processed and typewritten, with some autograph material (e.g. Cock and Bull) and a number of scrapbooks containing 'post-it' notes.
Various notebooks spanning 1980-2018. From 1995 onwards, the notebooks are generally consistent in format: small black reporter notebooks with elastic closure, each 125 x 75 mm. Entries are usually brief and not dated, and the hurried hand is difficult to read. The notebooks are a work tool, reco...
Material relating to: school, university, Broadway Lodge Treatment Centre for Addiction, marriage to Kate Chancellor, Alcoholics Anonymous, and the Jason Schone Memorial Fund.
Letters received from miscellaneous readers (and viewers and listeners), frequently including enclosures. The letters are divided between those written specifically in response to particular works of fiction, and a more general chronological run of letters prompted by Self's journalism and his ...
Files relating to Junk Mail (1996), Perfidious Man (2000), Sore Sites (2000), Feeding Frenzy (2001), Psychogeography (2007), Psycho Too (2009), and other journalism and non-fiction writing.