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Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer known for his satirical and political works. He has won several awards, including the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Prix Médicis and the Costa Book Award, and has collaborated with musicians and filmmakers.
Nov 7, 2022 · Jonathan Coe: ‘I would really rather not live in interesting times, thank you’. Britain’s foremost state-of-the-nation chronicler is back with another generation-spanning novel, ‘Bournville’. He...
Jonathan Coe was born on 19 August 1961 in Lickey, a suburb of south-west Birmingham. His first surviving story, a detective thriller called The Castle of Mystery, was written at the age of eight. The first few pages of this story appear in his novel What a Carve Up!.
Nov 10, 2022 · Culture | State-of-the-nation fiction. “Bournville” is Jonathan Coe’s most ambitious novel yet. Spanning 75 years, it is a chronicle of change both grand and intimate. Nov 10th 2022. Listen...
Jonathan Coe, born 19 August 1961 in Birmingham, is a British novelist and writer. His work usually has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire.
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Jonathan Coe is a British novelist and biographer, known for his satirical and experimental works such as What a Carve Up! and The House of Sleep. Learn more about his life, books, awards and style from this web page.
Nov 2, 2022 · Jonathan Coe’s Bournville: Britannia chained. The novelist’s piercing satire charts 75 years of British history, ending with a righteously angry attack on the inhumanity of Covid laws.
