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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.

Brought to you by Penguin. Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly, living with her parents and working a zero-hours contract at Heathrow Airport, while her budding plans of becoming a writer are going nowhere. That is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. He’s been...

Bienvenue à Bournville, charmante bourgade proche de Birmingham connue pour sa célèbre chocolaterie. C'est à l'occasion de la victoire de mai 1945 que nous y rencontrons la petite Mary Clarke, émerveillée par les festivités organisées autour de sa maison. Elle y croise alors le chemin d'un certain Geoffrey Lamb, fils d'un collègue de son père travaillant aussi dans l'usine de chocolat.

In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for decades. Mary will go on to live through the Coronation and the World Cup final, royal weddings and royal funerals, Brexit and Covid-19. She'll have children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

Dans la chaleur exaltante de l'été 1977, la jeune Calista quitte sa Grèce natale pour découvrir le monde. Sac au dos, elle traverse les États-Unis et se retrouve à Los Angeles, où elle fait une rencontre qui bouleversera sa vie : par le plus grand des hasards, la voici à la table du célèbre cinéaste hollywoodien Billy Wilder, dont elle ne connaît absolument rien.

Pentatonic, written and read by Jonathan Coe, is a daring and original story about family and memory, originally inspired by the accompanying music from Danny Manners. When a family celebrates the prize-giving day at their daughter's secondary school, thoughts turn to their own childhoods. The...

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable, audiobook edition of Number 11 by Jonathan Coe, read by Rory Kinnear and Jessica Hynes . 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...

Brought to you by Penguin. Expo 58 - Good-looking girls and sinister spies: a naive Englishman at loose in Europe in Jonathan Coe's brilliant comic novel 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...

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.

Gulliver is a travel-hungry and adventurous ship's doctor who has the odd misfortune of being ship-wrecked four times in as many voyages. Gulliver finds himself a giant among tiny humans in Lilliput; a tiny human among giants in Brobdignag; on the flying island of Laputa, with its most impractical intellectuals; and finally in the land of the Houyhnhnms, talking horses who think precious little of human ‘Yahoos’.

La Zia Rosamond non c'è più. È morta nella sua casa nello Shropshire, dove viveva sola, dopo l'abbandono di Rebecca e la morte di Ruth, la pittrice che è stata la sua ultima compagna. A trovare il cadavere è stato il suo medico. Aveva settantatré anni ed era malata di cuore, ma non aveva mai voluto farsi fare un bypass. Quando è morta, stava ascoltando un disco – canti dell'Auvergne – e aveva un microfono in mano. Sul tavolo c'era un album di fotografie. Evidentemente, la povera Rosamond stava guardando delle foto e registrando delle cassette. Non solo.