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    What Will Survive of Us

    Howard Jacobson

    An original homage to love in later life and a provocative look at infidelity, desire, and what is left when we strip away every layer

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    The Finkler Question

    Howard Jacobson

    The Finkler Question is a scorching story of exclusion and belonging, justice and love, ageing, wisdom and humanity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers…

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    In the Land of Oz

    Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    J: A Novel

    Howard Jacobson

    Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be…

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    Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings

    Howard Jacobson

    ‘A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid, shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind.’ - William Boyd

    ‘Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious of course - but don’t…

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    What Will Survive of Us

    Howard Jacobson

    Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age?

    Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age?

    'A rare gift and one to…

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    Howard Jacobson

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    This is a comprehensive and definitive study of the Man Booker Prize-winning novelist, Howard Jacobson. It offers lucid, detailed and nuanced readings of each of Jacobson’s novels, and makes a…

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    Catch-22

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    VINTAGE QUARTERBOUND CLASSICS- Bound to be beautiful

    A beautiful hardback edition of one of the most subversive anti-war novels ever written - reading Catch-22 is a rite of passage.

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    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller

    Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is…

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    Kalooki Nights

    Howard Jacobson

    Grayling, The Times Wild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be human. Max Glickman is son to an atheist boxer…

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    The Act of Love

    Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    J: A Novel

    Howard Jacobson

    Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. They aren’t sure if they have fallen in love of their own…

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    Whatever It Is, I Don’t Like It

    Howard Jacobson

    A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson’s most acclaimed journalism

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    The Mighty Walzer

    Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

    Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    Mother’s Boy: A Writer’s Beginnings

    Howard Jacobson

    Howard Jacobson’s funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer

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    The Exagoge of Ezekiel

    Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    Live a Little

    Howard Jacobson

    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. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE…

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    Redback

    Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    Who’s Sorry Now

    Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    The Making of Henry

    Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    Shylock Is My Name: William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice Retold: A Novel

    Howard Jacobson

    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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    Live a Little: A Novel

    Howard Jacobson

    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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    Making Of Henry, The

    Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    Kalooki Nights

    Howard Jacobson

    Longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize and hailed by The Times (London) as Ra work of genius, S Jacobson’s exquisitely written, audaciously funny novel explores the countless questions of…

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    Live a Little

    Howard Jacobson

    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. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl…

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    The Dog’s Last Walk: (and Other Pieces)

    Howard Jacobson

    This is my second selection of columns from the Independent –Introduction.

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    No More Mr. Nice Guy

    Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    Coming From Behind

    Howard Jacobson

    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. ‘A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel…do read…

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    The Finkler Question

    Howard Jacobson

    WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

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    The Exagoge of Ezekiel

    Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    Shylock Is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold

    Howard Jacobson

    ‘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…

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    Shylock Is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold

    Howard Jacobson

    ‘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…

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    The Mighty Walzer

    Howard Jacobson

    Simon Bent’s stage adaptation of Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson’s hilarious homage to Manchester

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    Dennis Creffield: Art and Life

    Richard Cork

    Hugely admired by artists and writers from Henri Cartier Bresson to the Booker prize winner Howard Jacobson, the extraordinary life and work of painter Dennis Creffield (1931-2018) are explored in…

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    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller

    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…

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    Catch-22

    Joseph Heller

    Reading Joseph Heller’s classic satire is nothing less than a rite of passage. Set in the closing months of World War II in an American bomber squadron off the coast…

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    Tales of Banks Peninsula

    Howard Charles Jacobson

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Tales of Banks Peninsula

    Howard Charles Jacobson

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

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    Tales of Banks Peninsula: Second Edition

    Howard Charles Jacobson

    Tales of Banks Peninsula - Second Edition is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1893. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as…

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    Das Leben Jesu Und Seine Lehre V1 (1841)

    Joseph Salvador,Howard Jacobson

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    Malcolm Smith Memorial Album

    Howard Lill Jacobson

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    Proteinaholic: How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

    Garth Davis, MD,Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    Great Expectations

    Charles Dickens

    When young Pip is accosted in the graveyard by Magwitch, a convict who has escaped from a nearby prison-ship, he begins a series of adventures which take him from his…

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    The Low-Carb Fraud

    T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.,Howard Jacobson

    By now, the low-carb diet’s refrain is a familiar one: Bread is bad for you. Fat doesn’t matter. Carbs are the real reason you can’t lose weight. The low-carb universe…

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    Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

    T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.,Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition

    T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D.,Howard Jacobson

    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…

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    Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave: Celebrating Twenty Years of Jewish Renaissance

    New essays exploring Jewish cultural trends of the past two decades, interspersed with choice material from the Jewish Renaissance magazine archive

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