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Health, Fitness & Dieting
An acclaimed surgeon specializing in weight loss delivers a paradigm-shifting examination of the diet and health industry's focus on protein, explaining why it is detrimental to our health, and can prevent us from losing... See More
Contemporary Fiction
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... See More
Contemporary Fiction
Travel
The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question went Down Under, and this is what he hilariously found. On what he calls "the adventure of his life," Howard Jacobson travels around Australia, never entirely... See More
Coming of Age
From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural--at ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde) he can chop, flick, half-volley like a champion. At sex he is not a natural... See More
Absurdist
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... See More
Biographies & Memoirs
From a Booker Prize-winning author, an "informed and witty" travelogue exploring America, Israel, Lithuania, and the nature of Jewish identity (Publishers Weekly). Howard Jacobson had been hoping to make a journey to... See More
Foreign Languages
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J, and one of "our funniest writers alive" (Allison Pearson): a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl... See More
Foreign Languages
_______________ '[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times 'The author's prose is always... See More
Literature & Fiction
Finalist for the 2014 Man Booker Prize "J is a snarling, effervescent, and ambitious philosophical work of fiction that poses unsettling questions about our sense of history, and our self-satisfied orthodoxies. Jacobson's... See More
Literature & Fiction
"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... See More
Health, Fitness & Dieting
By now, the low-carb diet's refrain is a familiar one: Bread is bad for you. Fat doesn't matter. Carbs are the real reason you can't lose weight. The low-carb universe Dr. Atkins brought into being continues to expand... See More
Health, Fitness & Dieting
New York Times Bestseller What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. Every apple contains thousands of antioxidants whose names, beyond a few like vitamin C, are unfamiliar to... See More
Literature & Fiction
Man Booker Prize-Winning Author of THE FINKLER QUESTION Swathed in his kimono, drinking tea from his samovar, Henry Nagle is temperamentally opposed to life in the 21st century. Preferring not to contemplate the great... See More
Literature & Fiction
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... See More
Literature & Fiction
Max Glickman, a Jewish cartoonist whose seminal work is a comic history titled Five Thousand Years of Bitterness, recalls his childhood in a British suburb in the 1950s. Growing up, Max is surrounded by Jews, each with an... See More
Literature & Fiction
In a stunning follow-up to his much-heralded masterpiece, Kalooki Nights, acclaimed author Howard Jacobson has turned his mordant and uncanny sights on Felix Quinn, a rare-book dealer living in London, whose wife Marisa is... See More
History
Taking the terrorist attacks of 9/11 as their starting point, five new essays look at how Jewish culture has changed over the past two decades. Covering music (Vanessa Paloma Elbaz), art (Monica Bohm Duchen), literature... See More
Education & Teaching
The Management Body of Knowledge is the American Management Association's flagship publication that sets the bar in management excellence. It outlines the right mix of knowledge, skills and abilities needed for managers to... See More
Sports & Outdoors
If you're obese, you probably don't see yourself as an athlete. You may think that you're lazy, unmotivated, and undisciplined - and beat yourself up for not having the strength of will to lose the weight. I'm here to tell... See More
Health, Fitness & Dieting
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... See More
Religion & Spirituality
Whitewashed focuses on events in Britain, but it throws a spotlight on left wing antisemitism everywhere. It compellingly shows how left wing hostility to Israel has an ongoing and painful impact on Jews in the Diaspora... See More
World Literature
In The Very Model of a Man, Jacobson takes on the Hebrew scriptures and rewrites religious history with his customary brand of ink-black humour. Adam and Eve have just been expelled from the Garden of Eden by a furious God... See More
In this provocative new essay, the novelist Howard Jacobson asks whether Jews will ever be forgiven the Holocaust. Experience teaches that the burden of guilt is as difficult for people to bear as the burden of obligation... See More
Humor & Entertainment
A hilarious and moving true story by Man Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson about the greatest "swag man" in the history of Manchester. A charming, brazen salesman of genius, Frankie Cohen rises from selling cheap... See More