Speakers: Howard Jacobson, Melvyn Bragg

As Jewish Book Week celebrates its 70th anniversary one of the festival’s favourite speakers marks a milestone of his own as he turns 80 this summer. In Mother’s Boy, Howard Jacobson explores belonging and not-belonging, being an insider and an outsider, both English and Jewish. Full of his trademark humour, this much-anticipated memoir also reveals how the Booker-winner became a writer. He will  discuss his childhood and career to date with author, broadcaster and parliamentarian Melvyn Bragg.