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Jonathan Coe
A blistering political critique wrapped up in a murder mystery - from the bestselling author of Middle England
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From the acclaimed author of The Rotters’ Club and The Closed Circle comes a novel for today’s strange times. Beginning nine years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham and London…
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A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, this book captures a fateful moment in British politics - the collapse of ‘Old Labour’ - and imagines its impact on the…
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A blisteringly funny political critique wrapped up in a murder mystery, from one of Britain's most beloved novelists
Post-university life doesn't suit Phyl. Time passes slowly living back home with…
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Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie. But as a murderous…
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Graham Caveney
A startling and deeply moving memoir about illness from one of the great chroniclers of British working-class life.
A novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us. It is about: the legacy of war and the end of…
Rosamund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story…
A blistering political critique wrapped up in a murder mystery - from the bestselling author of MIDDLE ENGLAND
Professor Vanessa Guignery
Jonathan Coe is a highly-acclaimed writer whose work has enjoyed worldwide success. This study, the first of its kind, explores the full range of Coe’s work, offering readers a comprehensive…
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Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover - or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories…
A moving, brutally funny and true portrait of Britain told through four generations of one family
In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old…
Merritt Moseley
In this first full-length study of the British novelist, Merritt Moseley surveys a writer whose experimental technique has become increasingly critically admired. Following an introductory overview of Coe’s life and…
MacDonald Harris
Mortal Leap tells a story we all know but have never heard: what happens when you have an opportunity to take another person's identity? A wife identifies a man badly…
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In novels such as What A Carve Up! and The Rotters’ Club, Jonathan Coe has established himself as one of the great satirical writers of our time. Covering all of…
Shows hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all. This book is about the legacy of war and the end of innocence…
The critically acclaimed biography of a man respected for his fierce commitment to truth and honesty, and his passionate belief in the avant-garde.
Middle England explores the experiences of characters from earlier in its trilogy against the backdrop of the major events taking place around the Brexit referendum. As acutely alert to the…
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE
"Outstanding."--Alex Harvey, Los Angeles Review of Books
"Captivating...A delight."--Malcolm Forbes, Washington Examiner
"A really warm and wonderful and fun and happy book."--NPR's All Sides…
Robin, a postgrad student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. Now it languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly…
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The adolescent characters of The Rotter’s Club now face the vengeance of middle age in a story very much of the moment, charged with such issues as 9/11, Afghanistan, and…
Rosamond has died. In her will is stated that the inheritance will be divided among equal parts: to Gill and David, her nieces and Imogen, a stranger. But when Gill…
The novel opens in the early aughts: two ten-year-olds, Alison and Rachel, have a frightening encounter with the Mad Bird Woman who lives down the road. Psychological insight, social commentary…
Like a surreal and highly caffeinated version of The Big Chill , Coe’s new novel brings together four students who first meet in college in the ‘80s. A decade later…
William has a lot on his mind. Firstly there’s The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They’re no good and they make his songs sound about as groovy as…
Set against the turbulent British ‘70s–a decade of industrial strikes, IRA bombings and rising nationalist racism–this marvelous tale combines comedy and tragedy in a sprawling coming-of-age chronicle of four friends…
A new state of the nation novel from the bestselling author of Middle England, spanning the huge social change that has taken place in Britain from 1945 to 2020
A tender and wickedly funny portrait of England told through four generations of one family.
Bournville is a quiet village in the heart of England famous for its chocolate. For…
Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition…
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom: separated from his wife and daughter, estranged from his father, and with no one to confide in even though he has 74…
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends…
In the summer of 1977, a young woman named Calista finds work on famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder's film set. The filming takes them to Munich, where Wilder grapples with…
London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia…
For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she’s unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless proposals of marriage. Maria…
On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a sexed-up new version of the country, Benjamin Trotter finds himself watching the celebrations on his parents’ TV. Watching, in fact, his younger…
The dazzling new novel about fame, time and nostalgia from the bestselling author of Middle England
A young woman named Calista meets the famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder in the…
If Charles Dickens and Agatha Christie had ever managed to collaborate, they might have produced this shamelessly entertaining novel, which introduces readers to what may be the most powerful family…
Denisa Dumitrascu
This book explores the intricate manifestations of contemporary power, its related ideology, and the resistance and reaction to the dominant discourse in Jonathan Coe’s political fiction, covering the dismantling of…
The first pictorial biography of Bogart–with fascinating and candid glimpses of his private and public life. Coe gives an incisive account of Bogey’s life–his failed marriages, his successful marriage to…
Jonathan Stroud
Soon to be a major Netflix series from Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead) and Joe Cornish (Attack the Block)
For more than fifty years, Britain has been terrorised by…
