Howard Jacobson 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 and was also shortlisted for the prize in 2013 for his most recent novel, J. He has written fourteen novels and five works of non-fiction.
A mighty novel. * Observer * Remarkable… May well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times * Guardian * Thrilling and enigmatic * New York Times Book Review * Snarling, effervescent and ambitious… Jacobson’s triumph is to craft a novel that is poignant as well as troubling * Independent * Jacobson…goes from strength to strength. -- William Leith * Evening Standard * Very little about Jacobson’s circuitous romance-cum-murder mystery is straightforward – other than its originality and its devastating brilliance. -- Stephanie Cross * Daily Mail * A dystopia that invites comparison with George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World * Sunday Times * Mystifying, serious and blackly funny. -- Max Liu * Independent on Sunday *