J Alex Hay What happens to a man

What happens to a man who has his ear pressed to the lives of others but not much life of his own

But the truth

Parliamentarian troops stormed the magnificent Winchester Cathedral

As he begins to investigate his own past Ward finds himself drawn into the shadowy

J Alex Hay What happens to a manShortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the 2014 Goldsmiths Prize Set in the future a world where the past is a dangerous country, not to be talked about or visited J is a love story of incomparable strangeness, both tender and terrifying. Howard Jacobson, one of Britains greatest novelists and winner of the 2010 Man Booker prize, has written a novel which 'may well come to be seen as the dystopian British novel of its times'. (John