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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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‘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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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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Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age?
'A rare gift and one to…
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Josh Howard
A grounded, politically engaged study of the Appalachian journalist and political critic Bruce Crawford, a scourge of coal and railway interests. Crawford fought injustices wherever he saw them at major…
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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…
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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David Brauner
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…
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…
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…
A collection of 2010 Man Booker winner Howard Jacobson’s most acclaimed journalism
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…
Howard Jacobson’s funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer
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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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From Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J comes a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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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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…
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…
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…
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…
This is my second selection of columns from the Independent –Introduction.
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…
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…
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…
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…
WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
Seventeen-year-old Nara Kilday is having the birthday from hell. Her dad has a new girlfriend, her boyfriend’s a loser, and she’s the constant target of ridicule by the most popular…
For the last 10 years, Nara Kilday has gone up against the worst Hell has to offer, losing many friends and allies along the way. Now she faces her greatest…
When 17-year-old Nara Kilday is murdered at the hands of a demonic cult, the quiet suburb of Darlington Hills is turned upside down. But when Nara inexplicably returns form the…
Nara and Hazy face their darkest hour. The insidious Abraham Pitch has returned and plots to open the Abyss, while Nara’s crusade against the Marked has disastrous consequences for those…
After being forced to kill her closest friend, Nara has been banished to Purgatory. Doomed to wander a hostile and timeless wasteland ruled by the mysterious Witch Queen, Nara has…
Nara Kilday’s life is that of a typical teenager - until the night of her tragic murder! As her best friend Hazy attempts to cope with the senseless tragedy, Nara’s…
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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.
This work is in the "public…
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…
What are you desperate for? Everybody has something. It could be family, popularity, a job promotion, a killer beach body, or any other thing that we strive for on a…
Howard Lill Jacobson
Josh Billings
Jezebelas Wings is about a ten-year-old child going to bed only to awake to a different momasame face but different soul. From this point on her life changes; her mother…
Josh Dean
A true story of Cold War espionage and engineering reveals how the CIA and the U.S. Navy, using the involvement of Howard Hughes as a cover story, spent six years…
‘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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Simon Bent’s stage adaptation of Man Booker Prize winner Howard Jacobson’s hilarious homage to Manchester
