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Howard Jacobson has written eighteen novels and six 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.
Barney, a man preoccupied with sex and literature, becomes obsessed by the life and work of a 19th-century author - hailed by Barney as a 'prurient little Victorian ratbag' - and sets off from north London to Cornwall to seek out the truth about this man, offending the locals and disturbing the peace. An original and riotous tale, full of wit, wanderings and bizarre encounters. (Kirkus UK)
