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With the birth of Abel, a new obligation falls on his brother, Cain, to find a language that contains all he feels of love and hate, and to go on finding it, long after he has committed the first and worst of crimes.

Howard Jacobson's book "In the Land of Oz" has continued to sell strongly. Here, he embarks on a journey to discover just what it means to be Jewish. He researches Jewish roots in Israel, the USA, London, Germany and Lithuania.

The author argues in this book that the proscribing of certain types of humour may not be beneficial. Just as humour has its origins in the cursing of malign spirits, in the present age of political constraint we still need it for our health too.

Barney's problems started when Sharon had him hypnotised. Now he is left with two major preoccupations in life - literature and sex. His obsession leads him from Finchley to Cornwall where he stomps the wild Atlantic cliffs, and offends serious ramblers.

Frank's partner writes pornography. He is a television critic who watches trash all day, she writes it. They fall out and he leaves with his libido intact, or so he believes. What happens when all you know is sex and yet you don't want it anymore?

From the very beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at ping-pong. At sex, he is not a natural, being shy and frightened of women, but with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, his game improves.

Sefton Goldberg, English teacher in the West Midlands is gnawingly aware of being an urban Jew islanded in a sea of country-loving Anglo-Saxons. Obsessed by failure, he plans to write a bestseller on the subject.

Out of the blue, Henry Nagel receives a solicitor's letter telling him he has inherited a sumptuous apartment in St. John's Wood. He is glad to escape the north, where there is nothing and no one to keep him. After nearly 60 years of disappointment, his life is about to change.

Chronicling over 150 emotionally-charged cases in which the heart ruled the head, invariably with fatal consequence, this work covers cases from all over the world, including Thompson and Bywaters, Snyder and Gray, Ruth Ellis, Howard Jacobson, and more. It offers an insight into the tortured ...

Fixated on the crimes that have been committed against his people, Max Glickman is drawn into the family history of an old childhood friend. It leads him to one conclusion - there can be, and should be, no release from his Holocaust obsessions.

Felix is a happy man. He runs a bookshop in London, and his wife, Marisa, is unfaithful to him. All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful. After an event on their honeymoon in Florida, Felix went from dreading the thought of someone else's hands on the woman he lov...

Felix is a happy man. He runs a bookshop in London, and his wife, Marisa, is unfaithful to him. All husbands, Felix maintains, secretly want their wives to be unfaithful. After an event on their honeymoon in Florida, Felix went from dreading the thought of someone else's hands on the woman he lov...

Former BBC radio producer Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, are old school friends who have never lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed. When the three dine at Libor's apartment, it's ...

Former BBC radio producer Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, are old school friends who have never lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed. When the three dine at Libor's apartment, it's ...

Former BBC radio producer Julian Treslove and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, are old school friends who have never lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed. When the three dine at Libor's apartment, it's ...

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor S...

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor S...

Roy, meanwhile, wants Douglas as an alibi for his growing involvement with Sylvia, an unsuitably young woman who loves nothing more than to shock and provoke. Life soon becomes extremely complicated as Douglas finds himself caught up in a frantic, farcical tangle of relationships, rivalry and sca...