Robert Cooper

A quest for identity

If it had been possible to listen to Howard Jacobson’s brilliant Booker Prize-short- listed novel in one sitting I would happily have done so; but even on motorways congested to the point of strangulation, a return journey from Chipping Norton to Brighton has yet to take 13 hours.

  • The FInkler Question

    Howard Jacobson, narrated by Steven Crossley

    Whole Story Audio Books - 11 CDs, 13 hours, £24.99

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