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Jacobson,HowardJames, NealKalooki NightsLife should have been sunny for MaxGlickman, growing up in CrumpsallPark in peacetime, with his mother’sglamorous card evenings to look forwardto, and photographs of his father’sfavourite boxers on the walls. But othervoices whisper seductively to him ofBuchenwald, extermination, and theimpossibility of forgetting. He is drawnback into the Holocaust obsessionsfrom which he realises there can be,and should be, no release. There is wild,angry, even uproarious laughter in thisnovel, but it is laughter on the edge.A Ticket to TewkesburyIt had been written by a soldier returninghome after the end of the Second WorldWar to a nurse in Cleethorpes. They hadmet at a rehabilitation hospital in Kentand fell head over heels in love. Thatmuch was clear from the brief note,but what remained was a mystery. Julieloved mysteries and set off on a questto locate the intended recipient of thecommunication. That quest was to takeher and her long-suffering husband ona journey from the peaceful and idyllictown of Tewkesbury on the River Avonin Gloucestershire to the East Coastholiday resort of Cleethorpes. Theirdiscoveries at these locations unearthedan organisation whose roots lay deepwithin the Fascism which had threatenedto engulf Europe in the 1940s,43