Howard Jacobson
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It
$29.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism
It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional... Buy or find out more →
No More Mr. Nice Guy
$6.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It’s a life. Or it was a life. But now they’re fig... Buy or find out more →
Mighty Walzer
$24.95 – Paperback book / Random Century
Oliver Walzer is a natural at ping-pong. He can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, his game improves. Unabashedly autobiographical, this is Howard J... Buy or find out more →
Coming From Behind
$19.95 – Paperback book / Random House
Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organized games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded... Buy or find out more →
Redback
$19.95 – Paperback book /
Karl Leon Forelock is a product of the northern English town of Partington (the wettest spot in Europe) and a graduate with a double starred first in the Moral Decencies from Malapert college, Cambridge. Sent to Sydney o... Buy or find out more →
In The Land Of Oz
$21.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
On what he calls 'the adventure of his life', Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely sure where he is heading next or whether he has the courage to tackle the wild life of the bush, the wild men of the ... Buy or find out more →
The Finkler Question
$32.99 – Trade paperback / Bloomsbury
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Funny, furious, unflinching - an extraordinary novel from the award-winning giant of literature, Howard Jacobson.
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disap... Buy or find out more →
Who's Sorry Now?
$6.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or at least he lives for women. At present he loves four women - his mother, his wife Hazel, and his two daughters - and is in love with five more. Charl... Buy or find out more →
The Act Of Love
$19.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
The acclaimed author of "Kalooki Nights" returns with this novel of love and jealousy as Jacobson turns his mordantly funny, articulate sights on a married man who is so in love with his wife that he allows her to conduc... Buy or find out more →
The Finkler Question
$20.95 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Funny, furious, unflinching - an extraordinary novel from the award-winning giant of literature, Howard Jacobson.
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disap... Buy or find out more →
The Finkler Question
$22.99 – Paperback book / Bloomsbury
Winner of the 2010 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Funny, furious, unflinching - an extraordinary novel from the award-winning giant of literature, Howard Jacobson.
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disap... Buy or find out more →
The Making Of Henry
$19.95$6.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father's love nest? Henry doesn't know, but he is glad to escape the North. After nearly sixty year... Buy or find out more →