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Brought to you by Penguin. 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 family 'A wickedly funny, clever, but also tender and lyrical novel about Britain and...

Brought to you by Penguin. Costa Best Novel Award 2019 Winner. 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 Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where...

Jonathan Coe's previous novel, The Rotters' Club, was a novel of innocence: a nostalgic, humorous evocation of adolescent life in 1970s Britain. The Closed Circle is its mirror image: a novel of experience. On Millennium night, with Blair presiding over a superficially cool, sexed-up new version...

Il nuovo romanzo di Jonathan Coe: un quadro molto comico, ma ahinoi anche molto serio, della vita pubblica e privata in Gran Bretagna, dal 2010 al 2018. Del pubblico, copre le elezioni del primo governo di coalizione di tutta la storia britannica, le rivolte violente del 2011, i Giochi olimpici del 2012 e, naturalmente, il tellurico referendum per la Brexit del 2016. Del privato, mostra come questi eventi impattino sulle vite dei Trotter, una tipica famiglia delle Midlands inglesi.

Comment en est-on arrivé là ? C'est la question que se pose Jonathan Coe dans ce roman brillant qui chronique avec une ironie mordante l'histoire politique de l'Angleterre des années 2010. Du premier gouvernement de coalition en Grande-Bretagne aux émeutes de Londres en 2011, de la fièvre joyeuse et collective des jeux Olympiques de 2012 au couperet du référendum sur le Brexit, Le cœur de l'Angleterre explore avec humour et mélancolie les désillusions publiques et privées d'une nation en crise.

Nei primi anni ottanta, nella severa Ashdown vive un gruppo di studenti: Gregory, che studia medicina e ha la mania di spiare il sonno altrui; Veronica, una lesbica volitiva, ultrapoliticizzata e appassionata di teatro; Terry, che dorme quattordici ore al giorno e da sveglio sogna di girare un film che richiederà cinquant'anni di riprese; Robert, romantico studente di lettere, che scrive poesie d'amore per Sarah; e Sarah, appunto, intorno alla quale girano le vicende di tutti gli altri. Dodici anni dopo, Ashdown è diventata una clinica dove si cura la narcolessia.

Trotter, Harding, Anderton e Chase: sembra il nome di un prestigioso studio legale; in realtà si tratta di un quartetto di giovani amici, che frequenta un liceo elitario di Birmingham, quel tipo di scuola che preleva giovani intelligenti dal loro background ordinario e li fa atterrare in una classe sociale diversa da quella dei loro genitori. I ragazzi sono destinati a Cambridge e Oxford, a carriere importanti, mentre i loro genitori rimangono impantanati nel loro mondo di matrimoni sciovinisti, scontri sindacali, guerre di classe e di razza, di ignoranza culturale.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, read by Richard Goulding. It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year: Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into car...

Brought to you by Penguin. Sarah is a narcoleptic who has dreams so vivid she mistakes them for real events; Robert has had his life changed for ever by the misunderstandings arising from her condition; Terry, the insomniac, spends his wakeful nights fuelling his obsession with movies; and the...

Ricordate gli anni della Thatcher? Gli anni in cui la rapacità era la virtù, i beni della nazione venivano depredati e Saddam Hussein era un uomo con il quale volentieri si facevano gli affari? È su questo periodo che Jonathan Coe, in uno dei romanzi più divertenti e mortalmente seri degli ultimi anni, butta uno sguardo giocoso e selvaggio. Ne esce un agghiacciante affresco socio-politico che rivela sorprendenti analogie con l'attuale realtà italiana.

L'undicesimo romanzo di Jonathan Coe è una storia dei nostri tempi: dal suicidio di David Kelly, lo scienziato britannico che aveva rivelato le bugie di Tony Blair sulla guerra in Iraq, agli anni austeri della Gran Bretagna che conosciamo oggi. È un romanzo su quell'infinità di piccole connessioni tra la sfera pubblica e quella privata, e su come queste connessioni finiscano per toccarci, tutti. Un romanzo sui lasciti della guerra e sulla fine dell'innocenza.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim written by Jonathan Coe, read by John Heffernan. 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...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Rain Before it Falls written by Jonathan Coe, read by Jenny Agutter. '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...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe, read by Nicholas Burns. 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...

Brought to you by Penguin. 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...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Dwarves of Death by Jonathan Coe, read by Daniel Weyman. Music, murder ... and Madeleine William has a lot on his mind. Firstly there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good and they make his songs sound about as groovy as an...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of A Touch of Love by Jonathan Coe, read by Peter Caulfield. Robin, a postgrad student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. He and his academic colleagues, united by pallor, social ineptitude and sexual inexperience, once...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Accidental Woman by Jonathan Coe, read by Sophie Ward. For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she's unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless proposals of marriage. Maria lives in a world...

Brought to you by Penguin. 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...

L’arrivée de Liz Truss au 10, Downing Street. Des ultraconservateurs réunis dans un vieux manoir. Une société secrète d’étudiants en plein Cambridge. Plusieurs morts mystérieuses. Des jeunes femmes en quête de vérité. Et une vieille inspectrice bien trop gourmande… Voici quelques ingrédients du nouveau roman virtuose de Jonathan Coe, le plus brillant et "charming" des auteurs britanniques, qui se joue ici des codes du polar pour mieux dénoncer montée des extrêmes et désinformation.