Howard Jacobson

Celebrated writer and broadcaster Howard Jacobson discusses his new novel, J.  Set in a future where the past is a dangerous country J is a strange, terrifying and tender love story, as original and thought provoking as Nineteen Eighty Four or Brave New World.   Jacobson’s previous books include The Mighty Walzer, winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize; Kalooki Nights, longlisted for the Man Booker Prize; and The Finkler Question, winner of the Man Booker Prize.  A regular Independent columnistJacobson has also written and presented several television programmes including the critically-acclaimed Channel 4 series, The Bible: A History and Rebels of Oz for the BBC.

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