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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Matt Lucas (Read by); Howard Jacobson (Read by)
Category: Audio | 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: Accessories
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
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
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
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
Category: Biography
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
Category: Biography
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
No More Mr Nice Guy by Howard Jacobson
Category: Fiction
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 he ...Show more
Pussy by Howard Jacobson
Category: Fiction
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 by Howard Jacobson; Michael Kitchen (Read by)
Category: Audio | Series: Hogarth Shakespeare Ser.
"A re-envisaging ofShakespeare'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 and a daughter going off the rails, wealthy art collector and philanthropist Simon Strulovitch is in need o ...Show more