Howard Jacobson\"s funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer. It\"s my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to make art. Why would you seek to reshape the world unless you were ill-at-ease in it? And I came out of the womb in every sense the wrong way round....

A provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Donald Trump by Britain’s greatest comic novelist....

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 Dusinbery is forgetting everything – including her own children....

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 accord, or whether they’ve been pushed into each other’s arms. But who would have pushed them, and why?...

One day, out of the blue, Henry Nagel inherits a sumptuous apartment in St John\"s Wood. Divine intervention? Or his late father\"s love nest? Henry doesn\"t know, but he is glad to escape the North. After nearly sixty years of angry disappointment, Henry\"s life is about to change....

\"The funniest book about sex ever written\" - Time Out 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 the nineteenth century - and by Barney as a \"prurient little Victorian ratbag\"....

\"Poignant, moving, hilarious...laugh-out-loud funny...the sort of book that might change your life\" - Observer From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion....

A series of letters purportedly written by Penelope, Dido, Medea, and other heroines to their lovers, the Heroides represents Ovid's initial attempt to revitalize myth as a subject for literature. In this book, Howard Jacobson examines the first fifteen elegaic letters of the Heroides....

With an absent wife and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need of someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire’s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It’s the beginning of a remarkable friendship ......

Current theories of phenomenal consciousness are accused of leaving out essential features of this phenomenon. Their opponents hold that the “problem of consciousness” is either unsolvable, or that we still lack conceptual resources to solve it. This book challenges both the adequacy of current theories and their rivals’ skeptical stance....

\\\"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 need someone to talk to. So when he meets Shylock at a cemetery in Cheshire\"s Golden Triangle, he invites him back to his house. It\"s the beginning of a remarkable friendship....

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....

How is it possible to read Howard Jacobson and not lose oneself in admiration for the music of his language, the power of his characterisation and the penetration of his insight?... The Finkler Question is further proof, if any was needed, of......

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....

It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple....