Howard Jacobson: 26 books

Reading is over. Writing is finished. Publishing is dead. Embittered author Guy Ableman knows this, as does his desperate editor; as does the sad whole of doomed literary London. But Guy is dedicated to his dying art, and continues to write for an audience that doesn't exist, loathed by the few readers...

Man Booker Prize–Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTION Swathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally opposed to life in the 21st century. Preferring not to contemplate the great intellectual and worldly success of his best boyhood friend, he argues...

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. But now they're fighting, locked in oral combat. He won't shut up and she is putting her finger down...

A provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Donald Trump by Britain’s greatest comic novelist. Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV,...

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. At sex he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow...

Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or at least he lives for women. At present he loves four women--his mother, his wife Hazel, and his two daughters--and is in love with five more. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, nice Charlie, loves just the one woman, also...

In my family we start out giants and end up pygmies, grandiosity runs in the blood. Oliver Walzer is shy, bookish, Jewish. He doesn’t know how to talk to girls. But he can chop, flick and spin a ping pong ball better than any teenager in Manchester. When Sheeny Waxman takes him under his...

It’s been proven that a plant-based diet is good for your weight, health, budget, and the environment, but the proof hasn’t come with a game plan-until now. If you’ve ever wanted to make the plant-based switch but felt overwhelmed about where to start, we have good news: you don’t have...

.Dans un monde postapocalyptique où le passé est un territoire dangereux, un homme et une femme tombent amoureux. Ni l’un ni l’autre ne savent d’où ils viennent, pas plus qu’ils ne savent où ils vont. Kevern ignore pourquoi son père plaçait toujours deux doigts devant ses lèvres pour...

An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry’s focus on protein, explaining why it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing weight. Whether you are seeing a doctor, nutritionist, or a trainer,...

Guy Ableman, écrivain de son état, est fou de sa femme Vanessa, une rousse éblouissante, perpétuellement en colère. L’ennui c’est que, depuis le premier jour, il est aussi fou de la non moins séduisante mère de Vanessa, Poppy. Pareilles à des soeurs plutôt qu’à une mère et sa fille,...

Julian Treslove et Sam Finkler se connaissent depuis l’enfance, Libor Sevcik est leur ancien prof d’histoire. Au fil des ans, la vie les a séparés sans qu’ils se perdent tout à fait de vue. La mort des épouses de Finkler et de Libor va les réunir de nouveau ; Treslove, veuf honoraire,...