PhoneA wildly entertaining new novel brilliantly skewering our contemporary world, from our fiercest writer. For the four characters at the heart of Will Self's brilliantly acute novel of our times, the phone is both a blessing and a curse. For elderly Dr Zachary Busner, it is a mysterious object, but also his lifeline to his autistic grandson Ben, whose own connection with technology is, in turn, a vital one. For Jonathan De'Ath, aka 'the Butcher', MI6