howard jacobson

Love can change your life. Can it survive it? 'Howard Jacobson at his finest' — Linda Grant, author of The Story of the Forest'How is it possibl

Booker Prize-winnaar Howard Jacobson was veertig toen hij debuteerde als romanschrijver. In Moederskind blikt hij terug op het leven dat hem daar brac

'A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid, shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind.' - William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious an

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

Oliver Walzer is shy, bookish, Jewish. He doesn't know how to talk to girls. But he can slice, flick and spin a ping pong ball better than any teenage

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.

Barney Fugleman has two major preoccupations in life: sex and literature. He is obsessed by the life and work of a man hailed by many as a genius of t

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 dr

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 s

From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. At sex he is not so adept, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of the Aki

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

_______________ 'A wildly funny account of his travels ... it actually is a book which makes you laugh out loud on almost every page' - Literary Re

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE

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 h

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

'A . It pulses with warmth and intelligence' The TimesA wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize

One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John's Wood. Not that the ghosts of Henry's past are prepared to disapp

A thought-provoking prescient novel from the Booker-prize winning author of The Finkler Question.‘Remarkable…May well come to be seen as the dystopian

Kevern weet niet waarom zijn vader altijd twee vingers over zijn lippen legde wanneer hij een woord uitsprak dat met een j begon. Hij heeft geleerd om

Een geestige roman over liefde op latere leeftijd, van de winnaar van de Man Booker Prize Rond haar negentigste levensjaar vergeet Beryl Dusinbery