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In the Land of Oz by Howard Jacobson
21.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature
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 of ...Show more
J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted 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 love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Howard Jacobson, one of Britain's greatest ...Show more
J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Man Booker 2014 Shortlist
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 father a ...Show more
Live a Little by Howard Jacobson
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her ...Show more
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 ...Show more
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer'A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid, shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind.' - William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious of course - but don't let the self-ribbing fool you; thi ...Show more
Pussy by Howard Jacobson
29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
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, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and ...Show more
Shylock is My Name: The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Howard Jacobson
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Ser.
Man Booker Prize-winner Howard Jacobson brings his singular brilliance to this modern re-imagining of one of Shakespeare's most unforgettable characters: Shylock Winter, a cemetery, Shylock. In this provocative and profound interpretation of "The Merchant of Venice," Shylock is juxtaposed against hi ...Show more
The Dog's Last Walk by Howard Jacobson
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
The author 's prose is always a delight - a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom ' Times Literary SupplementWeek after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting ...Show more
The Dog's Last Walk: (and Other Pieces) by Howard Jacobson
19.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
`The author's prose is always a delight ... a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' Times Literary Supplement Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecti ...Show more
The Finkler Question by Howard Jacobson
22.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Reading Level: very good
'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 and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friend ...Show more
What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Love can change your life. Can it survive it? Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily - independent, headstrong, rational - has never quite believed in love; while Sam - confident, passionate, romantic - thought he understood i ...Show more