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The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
'What I want you to have, Imogen, above all, is a sense of your own history; a sense of where you come from, and of the forces that made you.' 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 youn ...Show more
The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe, Jonathan Coe
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful co ...Show more
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 ...Show more
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably, Michael is c ...Show more