Autor Jonathan Coe
'A brilliant, shrewd, satirical novel - gimlet-eyed, funny, very clever and a searchingly profound look at the state of this strange country of ours' William Boyd'My comfort read: anything by Jonathan Coe' Bob Mortimer ---Post-university life doesn't…
'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and Britishness and what we have become' RACHEL JOYCEIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in…
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…
**The dazzling new novel from the prize-winning, bestselling author of Middle England** 'As good as anything he's written - a novel to cherish' Observer _______________________________________________________ In the heady summer of 1977, a naive young…
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…
The country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations. In the Midlands Benjamin Trotter tries to help his aged father navigate a Britain that seems to have forgotten he exists, while in London…
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 how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools of…
Podľa Grahama Greena „Trevorov najlepší román“, odmenený prestížnou Whitebreadovou cenou. Krehký príbeh lásky dvoch mladých ľudí poznačených rodinnou tragédiou siahajúcou do minulosti je odrazom pohnutej írskej histórie 20. storočia.