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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

Every animal on the planet owes its existence to one crucial piece of evolutionary engineering: the egg. It's time to tell a new story of life on Ear

Let Secret London guide you around the unusual and unfamiliar. Step off the beaten track with this fascinating London guide book.

Engeland, eind jaren dertig. In de zomermaanden komen drie generaties van de familie Cazalet bij elkaar op hun familielandgoed vlak buiten Londen. Ze

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) is een van de grootste schrijvers van het naoorlogse Engeland, maar haar briljante romans werden vaak overschaduwd d

Radicals in America is a masterful history of controversial dissenters who pursued greater equality, freedom and democracy - and transformed the natio

An insightful look at the development of drug discourses in the nineteenth century and drug policy in the twentieth century, Social Poison will appeal

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

Together, we can solve the climate crisis; eliminating air pollution and safely securing energy supplies for everyone, without relying on 'miracle' te

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

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

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

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

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