: Coe, J : What a Carve Up? ISBN: 0140234217 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780140234213 : Random House - Penguin : 738.00 . : .
: Coe, J : What a Carve Up! ISBN: 0141033290 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780141033297 : Random House - Penguin : 831.00 . : . : Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, `What A Carve Up!` in which a mad kinfeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. He is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie.
: Jonathan Coe : The Closed Circle ISBN: 0241967724 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241967720 : Random House - Penguin : : 1319.00 . : .
: 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 brother, Paul, now a New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode.
: Jonathan Coe : The Rotters` Club ISBN: 0241967767 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241967768 : Random House - Penguin : : 1319.00 . : .
: 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 topsy-turvy world of the bemused teenager: a world in which a lost pair of swimming trunks can be just as devastating as an IRA bomb.
: Coe, Jonathan : Number 11 ISBN: 0241967015 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241967010 : Random House - Penguin : : 1319.00 . : (1 .) : 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 innocence; how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won; and living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street.
: Coe Jonathan : Like a Fiery Elephant ISBN: 0330350498 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330350495 : Pan Macmillan : : 1500.00 . : .
: The critically acclaimed biography of a man respected for his fierce commitment to truth and honesty, and his passionate belief in the avant-garde.
: Jonathan Coe : The House of Sleep ISBN: 0241967740 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241967744 : Random House - Penguin : : 1319.00 . : .
: 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; and Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies.
: Jonathan Coe : The Terrible Privacy Of Maxwell Sim ISBN: 0241967775 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241967775 : Random House - Penguin : : 1319.00 . : .
: 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 friends on Facebook. He`s not even sure whether he`s got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way which involves a long journey to the Shetland Isles.
: Jonathan Coe : The Rain Before it Falls ISBN: 0241967759 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241967751 : Random House - Penguin : : 1319.00 . : .
: 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 of the young blind girl, her cousin`s granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago.
: Jonathan Coe : The Accidental Woman ISBN: 0241967716 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241967713 : Random House - Penguin : : 1319.00 . : .
: 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 lives in a world of her own - yet not of her own making. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood, she finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about.
: Jonathan Coe : Expo 58 ISBN: 0241966906 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241966907 : Random House - Penguin : : 1319.00 . : .
: 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, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World`s Fair of the century.
: Coe Jonathan : Expo 58 ISBN: 0670923710 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780670923717 : Random House - Penguin : 1570.00 . : .
: Jonathan Coe : Expo 58 ISBN: 0241968860 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241968864 : Random House - Penguin : : 646.00 . : .
: Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe - Spies, girls and an Englishman abroad. Trust no one.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, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century.As soon as he arrives, Thomas is equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic Atomium, which stands at the heart of this brave new world, and by Anneke, a lovely Flemish hostess.
But Thomas's new-found sense of freedom comes at a price: two British spies are following him.For fans of Jonathan Coe's classic comic bestsellers What a Carve Up! and The Rotters' Club, this hilarious new novel, which is set in the Mad Men period of the mid 50s, will also be loved by readers of Nick Hornby, William Boyd and Ian McEwan.'Clever and funny, enthralling and moving. Wonderful!' Daily Mail'Rich and splendidly comic' IndependentJonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. Expo 58 is his tenth novel.
The previous nine are all available in Penguin: The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death, What a Carve Up! (which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize), The House of Sleep (which won the 1998 Prix Medicis Etranger), The Rotters' Club (winner of the Everyman Wodehouse Prize), The Closed Circle, The Rain Before It Falls and The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim. His biography of the novelist B.S. Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, won the 2005 Samuel Johnson Prize for best non-fiction book of the year.
Expo 58 was nominated for the 2015 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
: Jonathan Coe : What a Carve Up! ISBN: 0241964768 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780241964767 : Random House - Penguin : 924.00 . : .
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'Tragedy had struck the Winshaws twice before, but never on such a terrible scale'
