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 know but no longer what you want?[...]
Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure - morbidly, in his[...]
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. Two people fall in love, not yet knowing where they have come from or where they are going. Kevern doesn't know why his fath[...]
Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize
""J" is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson's triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling from t[...]
'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school fri[...]
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with the[...]
A book that is a winner of The Man Booker Prize.
'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school fri[...]
On what he calls 'the adventure of his life', Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely sure where he is heading next or whether he has the courage to tackle the wild life of the bush, the wild men of the outback, or the even wilder women of the seaboard cities. In pursuit of the best[...]
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, beautiful but contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. Their provocative presence fills Guy's head with stories so wild he can't concentrate to write them. Not [...]
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence[...]
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence[...]
The new novel from the author of The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2010
A series of seemingly random disappearances - stretching back to the millennium. A mother determined to find the truth. A retired cop desperate to get his old life back ...It's been some time since Rebus was forced to retire, and he now works as a civilian in a cold-case unit. So when a long-dead ca[...]
Meet Raa Raa the noisy lion, who loves going on noisy adventures with his little jungle friends! This delightful little library introduces youngsters to the wonderful stars of the noisy new series - Raa Raa, Zebby, Huffty, Topsy, Ooo Ooo and Crocky. Featuring six beautiful mini board books in a slip[...]
In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece, "Kalooki Nights," acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is unfaithful to him. All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wive[...]
Frank Ritz is a television critic. His partner, Melissa Paul, is the author of pornographic novels for liberated women. He watches crap all day; she writes crap all day. It's a life. Or it was a life. Now they're fighting, locked in oral combat. He won't shut up, and she's putting her finger down he[...]
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence[...]
New York Times Bestseller What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to us, and each of these powerful chemicals has the potential to play an importa[...]
Vinner av Booker-prisen 2010!
En varm og vittig fortelling om utestenging og tilhørighet, rettferdighet og kjærlighet, aldring, visdom og det å være menneske. Julian Treslove, tidligere BBC-ansatt, og Sam Finkler, jødisk filosof, forfatter og TV-personlighet, er gamle skolekamerate[...]
Vinner av Booker-prisen 2010!
En varm og vittig fortelling om utestenging og tilhørighet, rettferdighet og kjærlighet, aldring, visdom og det å være menneske. Vinner av Booker-prisen 2010! Julian Treslove, tidligere BBC-ansatt, og Sam Finkler, jødisk filosof, forfatter og TV-personli[...]