Howard Jacobson has written seventeen novels and six works of non-fiction. He won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award in 2000 for The Mighty Walzer and then again in 2013 for Zoo Time. In 2010 he won the Man Booker Prize for The Finkler Question; he was also shortlisted for the prize in 2014 for J.
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 Times * One of the funniest writers alive * Daily Telegraph * A wonderfully wise, moving and heartfelt novel. A profound and vital book -- William Boyd, author of Any Human Heart Howard Jacobson at his finest. An intense expression of romantic love and sexual desire -- Linda Grant, author of The Story of the Forest Howard Jacobson is rightly regarded as one of Britain's very greatest writers -- Jonathan Freedland, author of The Escape Artist