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Bournville by Jonathan Coe
$23.00 AUD
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
$33.00 AUD
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
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 pr ...Show more
Like a Fiery Elephant : The story of B S Johnson by Jonathan Coe
$30.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
The critically acclaimed biography of a man respected for his fierce commitment to truth and honesty, and his passionate belief in the avant-garde. In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known young novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-gar ...Show more
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
$20.00 AUD
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Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense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
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
$33.00 AUD
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
Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
$33.00 AUD
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
Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
$20.00 AUD
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
Number 11 by Jonathan Coe
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 us all ...Show more
Number 11: Or Tales That Witness Madness by Jonathan Coe
$40.00 AUD
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 o ...Show more
Number 11: Or Tales That Witness Madness by Jonathan Coe
$33.00 AUD
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 Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe, Jonathan Coe
$25.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, 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 bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Bla ...Show more