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  • Sick to Fit: 3 Simple Techniques that Got Me from 420 Pounds to the Cover of Runner's World, Good Morning America, and The Today Show

    by Howard Jacobson, Josh LaJaunie ...
    If you're overweight or obese...If you're constantly tired, bloated, constipated, achy, sluggish, depressed, or anxious...If you're diabetic or pre-diabetic...If your doctor keeps warning you about the risk of cancer, heart disease, or other lifestyle- reversible calamity...If you're constantly worried about your blood pressure, weight, insomnia, eating habits...But you still find it next to ... Read more

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  • J

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    Kevern doesn’t know why his father made him put two finger across his lips whenever he began a word with a J. It wasn’t then, and isn’t now, the time or place for asking questions. Ailinn, too, has grown up in the dark about who she is and where she comes from. The past is a dangerous country, not to be visited or talked about.She is new to the village; Kevern has lived here, in half-hiding, all ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Proteinaholic

    How Our Obsession with Meat Is Killing Us and What We Can Do About It

    by Garth Davis, Howard Jacobson ...
    "A book that will help you lose weight; keep it off; prevent lifestyle disease and even reverse it. . . . [E]very doctor should prescribe [it]." —Rich Roll, bestselling author of Finding Ultra and The Plantpower WayWhether you are seeing a doctor, nutritionist, or a trainer, all of them advise to eat more protein. Foods, drinks, and supplements are loaded with extra protein. Many people use ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Finkler Question

    A Novel

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    "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 friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Whatever It Is, I Don't Like It

    The Best of Howard Jacobson

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    It 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 someone else, a wearer of Yarmouth shirts and fleecy sweats, of windbreakers and rugged Tyler shorts, of baseball caps with polo players where the section of the brain that concerns itself with ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Kalooki Nights

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    Cartoonist Max Glickman recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s, surrounded by Jews, each with an entirely different and outspoken view on what it means to be Jewish. After his friend Manny Washinsky is released from prison, Max is compelled to uncover the motive behind Manny's crime—the discovery of which leads Max to understand the indelible effects of the Holocaust and to explore ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Shylock Is My Name

    The Merchant of Venice Retold (Hogarth Shakespeare)

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    Series series Hogarth Shakespeare
    The second book in the Hogarth Shakespeare series heralds the full-on 2016 anniversary celebration of Shakespeare: Man Booker Prize winner and our great chronicler of Jewish life retells the powerful, controversial story of Shylock.In The Merchant of Venice, the merchant Antonio borrows from the Jewish moneylender Shylock, whom he openly despises, to help fund his friend Bassanio's wooing of the ... Read more

    Was $12.99 CAD Now $8.99 CAD

  • Coming From Behind

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    In 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 it' Malcolm BradburySefton Goldberg: mid-thirties, English teacher at Wrottesley Poly in the West Midlands; small, sweaty, lustful, defiantly unappreciative of beer, nature and organised games; ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • No More Mr Nice Guy

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    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 her throat again. So there's only one thing for it - Frank has to go.But go where? And do what? ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Zoo Time

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    Reading is over. Writing is finished. Publishing is dead. Embittered author Guy Ableman knows this, as does his desperate editor; as does the sad whole of doomed literary London. But Guy is dedicated to his dying art, and continues to write for an audience that doesn't exist, loathed by the few readers he does have - feminists who charge him with misogyny, mothers who accuse him of hating children ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Peeping Tom

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    Barney 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 'prurient little Victorian ratbag'.This curious propulsion drives him out of Finchley, and out of the life he shares with Sharon and her 'rampant marvellings', to Cornwall. There he offends serious ramblers ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Who's Sorry Now

    by Howard Jacobson ...
    Marvin Kreitman, the luggage baron of South London, lives for sex. Or at least he lives for women. At present he loves four women - his mother, his wife Hazel, and his two daughters - and is in love with five more. Charlie Merriweather, on the other hand, nice Charlie, loves just the one woman, also called Charlie, the wife with whom he has been writing children's books and having nice sex for ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD