Here it is! The glorious sunlit cover for JACOB'S ADVICE by Mecob design. Very Parisian. Out on Aug 20th 2020.

So Jacob's Advice has a publication date! Expect it to arrive in all good bookshops on August 20th 2020... For those 20 generous subscribers who are coming to the Parisian salon in Central London, the date was initially pencilled for December, but this is now going to take place next spring. Which should give everyone time to read some Badiou or Robbe-Grillet in advance. Till then, Jude x

Good news for a Friday morning. Jacob's Advice is now 100% funded with Unbound. Thanks to everyone who so generously supported the book. See you all at the salon (and/ or) at the launch!...Jude x

Hello all, so Jacob's Advice is a healthy 83% funded. Thanks to one and all for your generous support! Please do pass on the project to anyone who you think might like to pledge to help it over the line... If you pre-ordered the hardback and want to upgrade your pledge, there are still x5 places left on the Parisian literary salon (which will be taking place in December at a central London location…

The foothills have been conquered, and the summit is in sight! Jacob's Advice is over 50% funded. There's still a fair way to go, but - to mangle my metaphors - I like to think the glass is now half full... A huge thank you to all who've supported (and I'll be seeing some of you at the Salon Night to thank you personally). Do please tell your friends about the book and encourage them to pledge. In…

So my new novel JACOB'S ADVICE is 25% funded after only two weeks (hurrah!). A huge thank you to everyone who's supported so far...I hope you enjoy reading it when it arrives. Please do spread the word with friends & on social media (if you haven't already - thanks to everyone who has!) In the meantime, here's something I wrote for the Jewish Chronicle about how I came to write the book:

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So, a week after launching my new novel JACOB'S ADVICE with the good people at Unbound we are 15% funded with almost 60 supporters. All the Early Bird hardbacks have been snapped up, and seven of you are joining me for a Salon Night of heavy literary yak and good red wine... A fine start! A massive thank you to all who have backed the book so far... It means a great deal to me that you've dug deep…