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So you think you know Will Self? Esteemed author, literary critic, TV presenter and all-round man-about-town, over the last few years Will has enjoyed an enviable media presence but how much do you really know about him? Find out here.

1) Will was sacked from the Observer during the 1997 Election Campaign for?
Abusive behaviour

Snorting heroin

Factual inaccuracy

2) For which famous British sculptor did Will act as biographer?
Nicola Hicks

Bill Hicks

Edward Hicks

3) Ian Wharton, the protagonist of My Idea of Fun, is blessed with which gift?
Photographic Memory

Clairvoyance

Ability to see the future

4) Which Will Self book features the transsexual metamorphoses of both male and female characters?
How the Dead Live

Junk Mail

Cock and Bull

5) What is the title of Will's collection of architectural essays?
Sore Sites

Building Sites

Slow Sites

6) How the Dead Live, Will's latest novel, is influenced by...
The Tibetan Book Of The Dead

The Day of the Dead

Dead Man Walking
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