Abandoning the novel he was working on, he channelled his fury into writing Pussy – a provocatively entertaining, savagely funny satire on Trump.  Pussy is a twisted fairytale charting the rise to power of a presumptuous, egotistic prince brought up on a diet of casinos and reality TV. Remind you of anyone? Join Howard Jacobson, Britain’s greatest comic novelist and winner of the Man Booker prize, for some facetious fun.

In conversation with Sarah Churchwell, Professor of American Literature and Public Understanding of the Humanities