Howard Jacobson

Acclaimed Manchester-born novelist and broadcaster Howard Jacobson launched the paperback version of his seriously funny novel, Kalooki Nights. Described by The Times as ‘the most intelligent and important novel to appear in this country in years’ – it tells the story of Max Glickman who, turning his back on his Jewish upbringing in Crumpsall Park, finds he can’t escape a bigger history. Kalooki Nights won the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Jacobson's previous novels include Coming from Behind, No More Mister Nice Guy, Who's Sorry Now, The Making of Henry and The Mighty Walzer, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing.