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Live a Little by Howard Jacobson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'A . . . tender love story . . . This book is alive. 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... -
Howl by Howard Jacobson 9781787336452
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $17.12A tragicomic portrait of one man's unravelling in an absurd, twisted world, Howl is the propulsive new novel from Booker-Prize winner Howard Jacobson.'A howling comic masterpiece' Patrick... -
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Whatever it is, I Don't Like it: The Best of Howard Jacobson by Howard Jacobson 9781408810309 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.13It takes a particular kind of man to want an embroidered polo player astride his left nipple. Occasionally, when I am tired and emotional, or consumed with self-dislike, I try to imagine myself as... -
The Exagoge of Ezekiel by Howard Jacobson 9780521122436
RRP: $54.18Booksplease Price: $52.86Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson 9780553419566
Booksplease Price: $21.90Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553419566Author Howard JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
The Finkler Question Howard Jacobson 9781408809938
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.86______________ WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE ______________ 'Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding. It is also beautifully written with that sophisticated and... -
The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson 9780099526735
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66No man has ever loved a woman and not imagined her in the arms of someone else.Felix Quinn calls himself a happy man. He owns one of London's oldest antiquarian bookshops. He is married to and adores... -
Peeping Tom by Howard Jacobson 9780099288282
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51Barney 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... -
The Act of Love by Howard Jacobson 9781416594246
RRP: $28.37Booksplease Price: $22.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416594246Author Howard JacobsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint -
Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson 9781408831748
RRP: $10.31Booksplease Price: $4.37_______________ 'Comedy is never as clever as when Howard Jacobson is on a roll and this book finds him barrelling' - Independent on Sunday 'Brilliantly composed ... crackling with Jacobson's... -
The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson 9780099274728
Booksplease Price: $16.98From 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... -
The Making of Henry by Howard Jacobson 9780099472162
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.20One 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... -
J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson 9780099598381
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.31A thought-provoking prescient novel from the Booker-prize winning author of The Finkler Question.'Remarkable...May well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times' GuardianTwo people... -
Live a Little Howard Jacobson 9781787331433
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $15.45A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020*At the age of... -
The Mighty Walzer by Howard Jacobson 9781783198344
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Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson 9780099501367
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76'This book is Jacobson's masterpiece' Jonathan Freedland'A work of genius' A.C. Grayling, The TimesWild, angry and uproarious, Kalooki Nights is a darkly comic, timely novel of what it means to be... -
Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It by Howard Jacobson
Booksplease Price: $16.98_______________ '[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times ... -
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $18.76'A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid, shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind,' William BoydHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a... -
Coming From Behind by Howard Jacobson 9780099452034
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $16.98In an ever divided Britain, this wryly observed novel is a timely and thought-provoking read from the Booker-winning author of The Finkler Question.'A very funny, bitterly intelligent novel...do read... -
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson 9781529115673
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $10.51'One of the all-time great memoirs' Daily Telegraph'Wonderful...candid, shrewd and moving' William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious' Simon SchamaHoward Jacobson's funny, revealing and... -
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The Making of Henry by Howard Jacobson 9780099472162 [USED COPY]
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $2.64One 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... -
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J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson 9780224101974 [USED COPY]
RRP: $24.50Booksplease Price: $3.12Shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize Set in the future - a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited - J is a... -
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The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson 9781408809938 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.83______________WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE______________'Full of wit, warmth, intelligence, human feeling and understanding. It is also beautifully written with that sophisticated and near... -
No More Mr Nice Guy by Howard Jacobson 9780099274636
RRP: $20.63Booksplease Price: $16.09Frank 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... -
Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Howard Jacobson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66A re-envisaging of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, from the Man Booker Prize-winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life. 'Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an absent wife... -
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Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Howard Jacobson 9781781090282 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.28Winner of the Booker Prize 'The funniest British novelist since Kingsley Amis or Tom Sharpe' Mail on Sunday AS SEEN ON BBC IMAGINE `Who is this guy, Dad? What is he doing here?' With an... -
Tell Me How This Ends Well by David Samuel Levinson
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $4.37In 2022, American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their immediate problems are... -
The Magic Barrel by Bernard Malamud
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62In this collection of stories Malamud displays his great gifts as a writer - his humour, his profound concern for all human life and his ability to transmute common things and people into a strange... -
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Time For Bed by David Baddiel 9780349113555 [USED COPY]
RRP: $14.18Booksplease Price: $2.55The Sunday Times bestselling novel from comic genius David BaddielGabriel Jacoby can't get to sleep. In fact, he can't get anywhere at all, either in his Triumph Dolomite or his life. Everything... -
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg
RRP: $11.60Booksplease Price: $9.55"The Middlesteins had me from its very first pages" - Jonathan Franzen Edie and Richard have been married for over thirty years, living in the Chicago suburbs. Everyone who knew them-even their... -
Age of Confidence: The New Jewish Culture Wave: Celebrating Twenty Years of Jewish Renaissance by David Benmayer
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $6.30Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting point, five new essays look at how Jewish culture has changed over the past two decades. Covering music (Vanessa Paloma Elbaz), art (Monica Bohm... -
Use the Weight to Lose the Weight: A Revolutionary New Way to Leverage the Strength You've Developed Carrying 50, 100, or Even 150+ Extra Pounds and Claim Your Bad-Ass Status as a Real Athlete! by Howard Jacobson 9781732979543
RRP: $10.26Booksplease Price: $9.61Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
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The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Jeanette Winterson 9781781090299 [USED COPY]
RRP: $21.92Booksplease Price: $3.26`I saw the strangest sight tonight.' New Bohemia. America. A storm. A black man finds a white baby abandoned in the night. He gathers her up - light as a star - and decides to take her home. ... -
Kaddish.com by Nathan Englander
Booksplease Price: $14.56Larry is the secular son in a family of Orthodox Brooklyn Jews. When his father dies, it's his responsibility to recite the Kaddish, the Jewish prayer for the dead, every day for eleven months. To... -
New Boy by Tracy Chevalier
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $9.66'A compact and intense read full of twists, turns and intrigue' Daily ExpressThe bestselling author of Girl with a Pearl Earring and The Last Runaway returns with a tale of jealousy, bullying and... -
Poems by Emily Bronte 9781857157284
RRP: $15.48Booksplease Price: $11.38* In size, price, and elegant packaging, these books will make ideal gifts * Beautiful 3-colour jacket designed to give a uniform look * Unique and highly distinctive black-and-white pattern on each... -
Shakespeare's Language by Frank Kermode
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $11.91The true biography of Shakespeare - and the only one we really need to care about - is in the plays. Sir Frank Kermode, Britain's most distinguished literary critic, has been thinking about them all... -
Babette's Feast and Other Stories by Isak Dinesen
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $10.26These five rich, witty and magical stories from the author of Out of Africa include one of her most well known tales, 'Babette's Feast', which was made into the classic film. It tells the story of a... -
The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith
RRP: $16.76Booksplease Price: $12.62When Dr Primrose loses his fortune in a disastrous investment, his idyllic life in the country is shattered and he is forced to move with his wife and six children to an impoverished living on the... -
The Gap of Time: The Winter's Tale Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Jeanette Winterson
RRP: $12.89Booksplease Price: $7.12'A shining delight of a novel'New York Times 'Clever and beautiful...it soars'Financial Times A baby girl is abandoned, banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia. Her...