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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens; Matt Lucas (Read by); Howard Jacobson (Read by)
$49.95 AUD
Category: Adult Fiction | Series: The\Dickens Collection
Extensive reading improves fluency and there is a real need in the ELT classroom for hand-picked classics of English literature that are simplified and adapted for students in an accessible and engaging way. Great Expectationsis one of Charles Dickens' most popular novels, its colourful characters and ...Show more
Live a Little by Howard Jacobson
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A wickedly observed novel about falling in love at the end of your life, by the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Finkler Question. At the age of ninety-something, Beryl Dusinbery is forgetting everything - including her own children. She spends her days stitching morbid samplers and tormenting her ...Show more
Mother's Boy: A Writer's Beginnings by Howard Jacobson
$24.99 AUD
Category: Auto/Biography
Howard Jacobson's funny, revealing and tender memoir of his path to becoming a writer'A wonderful memoir, written with great linguistic brio. Candid, shrewd and moving - a classic of its kind.' - William Boyd'Laugh-out-loud glorious and uproarious of course - but don't let the self-ribbing fool you; thi ...Show more
Pussy by Howard Jacobson
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
Pussy is the story of Prince Fracassus, heir presumptive to the Duchy of Origen, famed for its golden-gated skyscrapers and casinos, who passes his boyhood watching reality shows on TV, imagining himself to be the Roman Emperor Nero, and fantasizing about hookers. He is idle, boastful, thin-skinned and ...Show more
What Will Survive of Us by Howard Jacobson
$34.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Love can change your life. Can it survive it? Lily falls in love with Sam the minute she sets eyes on him. It takes Sam a day or two longer. Curious, because Lily - independent, headstrong, rational - has never quite believed in love; while Sam - confident, passionate, romantic - thought he understood i ...Show more
Zoo Time by Howard Jacobson
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Novelist Guy Ableman is in thrall to his vivacious wife Vanessa, a strikingly beautiful red-head, contrary, highly strung and blazingly angry. The trouble is, he is no less in thrall to her alluring mother, Poppy. More like sisters than mother and daughter, they come as a pair, a blistering presence tha ...Show more
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