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Bournville by Jonathan Coe
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait of Britain told through four generations of one familyIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her famil ...Show more
Bournville by Jonathan Coe
Category: Fiction
'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' Rachel Joyce-----From the bestselling, award-winning author of Middle England comes a profoundly moving, brutally funny and brilliantly true portrait of Britain told through four generatio ...Show more
Bournville by Jonathan Coe
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of Middle England and Mr Wilder and Me comes a brilliant new state of the nation novel. In the Birmingham suburb of Bournville, a family celebrate VE Day in 1945. With the joy of such an occasion there also come larger national questions about the nature of the horrific war ...Show more
Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe
Category: Accessories
London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk at the Central Office of Information and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair o ...Show more
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
Category: Fiction
'COE IS AMONG THE HANDFUL OF NOVELISTS WHO CAN TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE TEMPER OF OUR TIMES' OBSERVER 'It was tempting to think, at times like this, that some bizarre hysteria had gripped the British people' Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been rep ...Show more
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
Category: Fiction
Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change.There are newlyweds Ian and Sophie, wh ...Show more
Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
Category: Fiction
**The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England**In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hol ...Show more
Mr. Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
Category: Fiction
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ROTTERS' CLUB AND MIDDLE ENGLAND In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working f ...Show more
Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
Category: Fiction
The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England. In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Holl ...Show more
Number 11: Or Tales That Witness Madness by Jonathan Coe
Category: Fiction
This is a novel about the hundreds of tiny connections between the public and private worlds and how they affect us all.It's about the legacy of war and the end of innocence.It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won.It's about how 140 characters can make fools of u ...Show more
The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe
Category: Fiction
A heartbreaking novel of family secrets from one of the masters of modern fiction, The Rain Before it Falls is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classicsDeeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before it Falls is the story of three generations of one family ...Show more
The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life . . .' Coming of age in 1970s' Birmingham, teenager Benjamin Trotter is about to disc ...Show more