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Bournville by Jonathan Coe
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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
Like a Fiery Elephant : The story of B S Johnson by Jonathan Coe
$27.90 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ 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
$38.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Compulsively readable - the much-anticipated follow-up to Coe's bestselling novel The Rotters' Club. Set against the backdrop of the Millenium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's war against terrorism, The Closed Circle lifts the lid on an era in which politics and ...Show more
The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe
$37.00 NZD
Category: World 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
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Penguin Ink
At 8.20 precisely, the timing device set off the trigger, the battery pack sent power running through the cables, and thirty pounds of gelignite exploded on the far side of the pub. And that was how it all ended, for the chick and the hairy guy. The tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of ag ...Show more
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