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The Rain Before it Falls

Mr Wilder and Me

Winner of the Costa Novel Award 2019

Middle England

‘Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad’ The Times

What a Carve Up!

Number 11

The Dwarves of Death

The House of Sleep

A Touch of Love

The Accidental Woman

The Terrible Privacy Of Maxwell Sim

Expo 58

Loggerheads and Other Stories

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Marginal Notes, Doubtful Statements

A Story of Music

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What A Carve Up!

The Rotters' Club

Goodbye to All That

Out of Africa

A Clockwork Orange

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Cold Comfort Farm

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Lady Chatterley's Lover

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The Sacred And Profane Memories Of Captain Charles Ryder

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One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving and richly comic novels that you find all too rarely in English fiction ... a masterpiece

Very funny ... a compulsive and gripping read. Coe has achieved that rare feat: a novel stuffed with characters you really care for

A book to cherish, a book to reread, a book to buy for all your friends

Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up. 
 
Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side, prefects, detention, a few bottles of Blue Nun, lots of brown wallpaper, industrial strife, and divine intervention in the form of a pair of swimming trunks. 
 
Set against the backdrop of the decade's class struggles, tragic and riotous by turns, packed with thwarted romance and furtive sex, The Rotters' Club is for anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard way.

'Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some cosmic practical joke, by assigning me little more than a walk-on part in my own life . . .' 
 
Coming of age in 1970s' Birmingham, teenager Benjamin Trotter is about to discover the agonies and ecstasies of growing up. Whether it is first love or last rites, IRA bombs or industrial strife, prog versus punk rock, expectations of bad poetry or an unexpected life-changing experience involving lost swimming trunks, The Rotters' Club is a heartfelt and hilarious portrait of a particular time and place featuring characters recognisable the world over . . . 
 
'Very funny, a compulsive and gripping read' The Times 
 
'Hugely entertaining' The Observer 
 
 'A book to cherish, a book to reread, a book to buy for all your friends' Independent on Sunday 
 
Jonathan Coe's latest novel The Proof of My Innocence is available to pre-order now!

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of 14 novels: The Accidental Woman, A Touch of Love, The Dwarves of Death, What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters’ Club, The Closed Circle, The Rain Before It Falls, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, Expo 58, Number 11, Middle England, Mr Wilder and Me and Bournville. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger, the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, amongst many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre de l'Art et des Lettres. His work been translated into 22 languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.

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One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving and richly comic novels that you find all too rarely in English fiction ... a masterpiece

Very funny ... a compulsive and gripping read. Coe has achieved that rare feat: a novel stuffed with characters you really care for

A book to cherish, a book to reread, a book to buy for all your friends

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