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Catch-22 (Vintage Classics Most Red Series) by Joseph Heller; Howard Jacobson (Introduction by)
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Most Red Ser.
MOST LOVED. MOST RED. Ten must-read modern classics. 'He was going to live forever, or die in the attempt.' It's the closing months of the Second World War and Yossarian has never been closer to death. Stationed in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, each flight mission introduces him ...Show more
Coming from Behind by Howard Jacobson
Category: Fiction
Sefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, definatly 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 own ...Show more
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Matt Lucas (Read by); Howard Jacobson (Read by)
Category: Audio Books | Series: The\Dickens Collection
Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for hand-picked classics of English literature that are simplified and adapted for students in an accessible and engaging way. Great Expectationsis one of Charles Dickens' most popular novels, its colourful characters and ...Show more
In the Land of Oz by Howard Jacobson
Category: Travel
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 by Howard Jacobson
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
J: A Novel by Howard Jacobson
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
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
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
Category: Fiction
Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper seductively to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossib ...Show more
Kalooki Nights by Howard Jacobson
Category: Fiction
Life should have been sunny for Max Glickman, growing up in Crumpsall Park in peacetime, with his mother's glamorous card evenings to look forward to, and photographs of his father's favourite boxers on the walls. But other voices whisper seductively to him of Buchenwald, extermination, and the impossib ...Show more
LIVE A LITTLE by JACOBSON HOWARD
Category: Fiction
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler QuestionA wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.*NOMINATED FOR THE WINGATE LITERA ...Show more
Live a Little by Howard Jacobson
Category: Fiction
'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 Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question.At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting ever ...Show more
Live a Little by Howard Jacobson
Category: Fiction
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