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An original homage to love in later life and a provocative look at infidelity, desire, and what is left when we strip away every layerLily Redfern falls in love with Sam Quaid the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam Quaid a day or two longer to fall in love with her - but then he already has a wife.Lily is an award-winning television documentary maker. Sam is an award-winning playwright. It is to plan a TV programme that they meet, and i...

Love can change your life. Can it survive marriage and middle age?'A profound and vital book' WILLIAM BOYD, author of Any Human Heart'Howard Jacobson at his finest' LINDA GRANT, author of The Story of the ForestLily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily - independent, headstrong, rational - has never quite believed in love, while Sam - confident, passionate, romantic - t...

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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, this is deep and poignant.' Simon Schama Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writerIt's my theory that only the unhappy, the uncomfortable, the gauche, the badly put together, aspire to mak...

Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writerIt'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 every sense the wrong way round. In Mother's Boy, Booker-Prize winner Howard Jacobson reveals how he became a writer. It is an exploration of be...

Die energische Beryl Dusinbery kämpft jeden Tag gegen das Vergessen, während sich Shimi Carmelli am liebsten an gar nichts mehr erinnern würde. Ein unwahrscheinlicheres Paar gab es selten, doch jede Begegnung lässt die beiden Alten ein wenig näher zusammenrücken. Eine unmögliche Liebesgeschichte im höchsten Alter, erzählt mit wunderbar dunklem Humor. Mit über Neunzig vergisst Beryl Dusinbery alles Mögliche, nicht selten sogar die eigenen Kind...

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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.*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WINGATE LITERARY PRIZE 2020*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 two long-suffering carers, Nastya and Euphoria, with tangled stories of her husbands and love ...

From Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question and J comes a wickedly observed novel of old age and new love.

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Julian Treslove e Sam Finkler, amici dai tempi della scuola, non potrebbero essere più diversi. Tanto è belloccio e inconcludente il primo, quanto è carismatico e risoluto il secondo. Treslove è sentimentale, pessimista, incapace di relazioni durature. Finkler è un filosofo pop, un volto noto della televisione, nonché autore di improbabili best seller come "L'esistenzialista ai fornelli" e "Piccolo manuale di stoicismo domestico". Ma soprattut...

Howard Jacobson has written sixteen novels and five 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.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Automation and SocietyArcheology tells us that man's discovery of fire, its preserva tion and its utilization, was a revolutionary departure, placing him firmly apart in behavior from all other animals. This was man at his best, asserting his humanity and making himself. Fire gave Stone Age man a mastery over nature, the New Stone Age found man controlling his own food supply, the Bronze Age evolved specialized industries and orga...

Excerpt from Tales of Banks PeninsulaWhen I began to compile the following collection of Peninsula narratives, I never for a moment thought that they would assume such dimensions as to warrant their being published in book form, and I merely wished to collect some information that might be interesting to the readers of the Akaroa Mail, and also be of use to some future historian of New Zealand.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundr...

Ein Jahr Donald Trump - eine bissige Gesellschaftssatire vom Booker-Preisträger In der einst so friedlichen Republik Urbs-Ludus sind unruhige Zeiten angebrochen: Zu viele ausländische Brotbäcker bedrohen den Frieden in der Stadt. Alle Hoffnungen ruhen auf dem Prinzen mit dem senfgelben Haar. Doch weiß der, wie man ein Land regiert? Böse Zungen behaupten, er habe sogar Schwierigkeiten, vollständige Sätze zu bilden ... Prinz Fracassus ist der ...