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Jonathan Coe

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in Birmingham, The United Kingdom

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http://www.jonathancoewriter.com

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Fiction, Contemporary, Humor and Comedy

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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. For example, What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name, in the light of the 'carve up' of the UK's resources which some felt was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's right wing Conservative governments of the 1980s. Coe studied at King Edward's School, Birmingham and Trinity College, Cambridge, before teaching at the University of Warwick w ...more

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David Nobbs 1935-2015

I’m sorry to say that the great British novelist and television writer David Nobbs died a few days ago.

As many of you will know, David was one of my favourite writers. I first read his novel The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin in the mid-1970s, shortly after the TV series of the same name had started airing on BBC 1. It had the most profound effect on me. It’s no exaggeration to say that everythi

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Average rating: 3.82 · 108,505 ratings · 9,792 reviews · 70 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Rotters' Club 3.96 avg rating — 15,029 ratings — published 2001 — 84 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Middle England (Rotters' Club, #3) 3.93 avg rating — 14,980 ratings — published 2018 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	What a Carve Up! (The Winshaw Legacy, #1) 4.11 avg rating — 12,438 ratings — published 1994 — 77 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House of Sleep 3.94 avg rating — 12,294 ratings — published 1997 — 72 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Rain Before it Falls 3.70 avg rating — 7,206 ratings — published 2007 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Closed Circle (Rotters' Club, #2) 3.92 avg rating — 6,650 ratings — published 2004 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bournville 3.79 avg rating — 6,868 ratings — published 2022 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mr Wilder & Me 3.76 avg rating — 6,610 ratings — published 2020 — 32 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Number 11 (The Winshaw Legacy, #2) 3.65 avg rating — 5,336 ratings — published 2015 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim 3.42 avg rating — 5,658 ratings — published 2010 — 65 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something can still make you happy, can't it, even if it isn't real.”
― Jonathan Coe, The Rain Before It Falls

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“Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.”
― Jonathan Coe, The Dwarves of Death

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“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. Or sometimes I feel that my role is simply to be a spectator to other people's stories, and always to wander away at the most important moment, drifiting into the kitchen to make a cup of tea just as the denouement unfolds.”
― Jonathan Coe, The Rotters' Club

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When I Hit You: Or, A Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife by Meena Kandasamy

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Days Without End by Sebastian Barry

6 votes, 26.1%

The Last Samurai by Helen DeWitt

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You Don't Know Me by Imran Mahmood

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The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe

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