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Bournville by Jonathan Coe
37.00 NZD
Category: Literary 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: General 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
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
26.00 NZD
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Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense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
37.00 NZD
Category: General 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: General 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
The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe
37.00 NZD
Category: General 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 Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
39.00 NZD
Category: General fiction
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems. Then a business proposition ...Show more
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
30.00 NZD
Category: General 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!: Penguin Street Art by Jonathan Coe
26.00 NZD
Category: General fiction | Series: Penguin Street Art
'Tragedy had struck the Winshaws twice before, but never on such a terrible scale' Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into carparks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livest ...Show more
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