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Live a Little
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question
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Zoo Time
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, highly strung, and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother. More like sisters than mother...
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Catch-22
SOON TO BE A MAJOR TV SERIES Discover Joseph Heller's hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight...
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Live a Little
From Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J comes a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love.
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Women in Love
WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY HOWARD JACOBSONWomen in Love begins one blossoming spring day in England and ends with a terrible catastrophe in the snow of the Alps. The bonds between the couples quickly become intense and passionate but...
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Live a Little
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. Told with Jacobson's trademark wit and style, Live a Little is in equal parts funny,...
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Sick to Fit: Three simple techniques that got me from 420 pounds to the cover of Runner’s World, Good Morning America, and the Today Show
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Brilliant Creatures Dvd
Man Booker Prize Winner Howard Jacobson sets off on a journey of discovery to understand why Barry Humphries, Robert Hughes, Germaine Greer and Clive James left Australia in the 1960s and how they...
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The Dog’s Last Walk: (and Other Pieces)
Hilarious, heartbreaking, provocative and affecting - Howard Jacobson's irresistible journalism reveals the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist in all his humanity.
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Pussy: A Novel
A provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Donald Trump by Britain's greatest comic novelist.
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The Mighty Walzer
Simon Bent's stage adaptation of Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson's hilarious homage to Manchester
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Shylock Is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold
'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a...
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Shylock Is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold
'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a...
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J
Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn't know why his father always drew two fingers across his lips when he said a world starting with a J. It wasn't then, and...
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The Exagoge of Ezekiel
The Exagoge is a drama on the theme of the Jewish Exodus, written in the form of a Greek tragedy by a Jew some time during the second century BC. It survives in 269 lines of continuous passage, enough to give the shape of the play...
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Peeping Tom
Barney Fugleman's problems started when Sharon had him hypnotized - or did they begin when he spied on Rabika Flatman in a hammock? Either way, he is left with two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. Barney is...
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The Making of Henry
One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel receives a solicitor's letter telling him he has inherited 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...
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Kalooki Nights
`This book is Jacobson's masterpiece' Jonathan Freedland'A work of genius' A.C. Grayling, The TimesWild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human. Max Glickman is son to an...
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Who’s Sorry Now
Marvin Kreitman lives for sex, or at least he lives for women. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie. Once a week, the two friends meet for a Chinese lunch, contriving never quite...
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No More Mr. Nice Guy
Frank is a television critic. His partner, Melissa, an author of pornographic novels for women. Sick of his life and their fighting, Frank decides its time to go. But go where? And do what? And what happens when sex is all you...
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The Mighty Walzer
From the beginning, Oliver Walzel is a natural - at ping-pong; he can chop, flick and half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural, but with tuition his game improves. This is the story of coming-of-age in 1950s...
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Redback
Karl Leon Forelock, double starred first graduate in Moral Decencies from Cambridge, is sent to Sydney to teach Australians how to live. Once there he quickly discovers that among the native population there are some who believe...
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Coming From Behind
In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question. Obsessed by failure - morbidly, in his own case, gloatingly, in that of his...
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The Act of Love
No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. But a childhood experience has taught him that loss is intrinsic to love, and Felix realises that he can only be...
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In the Land of Oz
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question went Down Under - and this is what he found... The Sunday Times bestseller - over 50,000 copies sold of the original edition
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Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It
A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson's most acclaimed journalism
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J: A Novel
Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize, the 2014...
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The Finkler Question
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
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Shylock Is My Name
Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare’s most unforgettable characters: Shylock
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The Dog’s Last Walk: (and Other Pieces)
This is my second selection of columns from the Independent --Introduction.
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Making Of Henry, The
Out of the blue, Henry Nagel receives a solicitor's letter telling him he has inherited a sumptuous apartment in St. John's Wood. He is glad to escape the north, where there is nothing and no one to keep him. After nearly 60 years...
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Who’s Sorry Now?
With all the humor we've come to expect from this Booker Prize-winner, Howard Jacobson spins a tale of sex and lust with surprisingly dark consequences.
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Zoo Time
Jacobson, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010, is a master of stylish prose with a comic bent. Booklist
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Tales of Banks Peninsula - Scholar’s Choice Edition
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Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)
A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. He writes like a dream' Evening Standard'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom...
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Tales of Banks Peninsula
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Automation and Society
Contributing Authors Include Paul T. Veillette, Ralph J. Cordiner, D. J. Davis And Many Others.
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Tales of Banks Peninsula
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A Commentary on Pseudo-Philo’s Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, with Latin Text and English Translation (2 vols.)
This book offers a dramatically new translation of Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum, a commentary that deals extensively with LAB's place in ancient biblical exegesis, and an introduction that treats the major problems associated...
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Automation and Society
Contributing Authors Include Paul T. Veillette, Ralph J. Cordiner, D. J. Davis And Many Others.
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Girl, 20
Douglas Yandell, a youngish music critic, is enlisted by Kitty Vandervane to keep an eye on her roving husband - the eminent conductor and would-be radical Sir Roy - as he embarks on yet another affair. Roy, meanwhile, wants...
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Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? This book demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten off-track and reveals the elegant wonders of the true wholistic...
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Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It
An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry's focus on protein, explaining why it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing weight. ...
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Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition
Why does a whole-food, plant-based diet provide optimal nutrition? This book demonstrates how far the scientific reductionism of the nutrition orthodoxy has gotten off-track and reveals the elegant wonders of the true wholistic...
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Tales of Banks Peninsula
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The Mighty Walzer
From the beginning, Oliver Walzer is a natural--at ping-pong. While the boys on Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team teach him everything he needs to know about ping-pong, his father, Joel Walzer, teaches him everything there is to...
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La Extraordinaria Naturaleza de Sam Finkler
Julian and Sam are old friends. They've never lost touch with each other, or with their former teacher, Libor Sevcik. One night, they shared a sweetly painful evening, reminiscing on a time they had loved and lost. Making his way...
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The Act of Love
No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. But a childhood experience has taught him that loss is intrinsic to love, and Felix realises that he can only be...
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