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The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
$19.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Ink
At 8.20 precisely, the timing device set off the trigger, the battery pack sent power running through the cables, and thirty pounds of gelignite exploded on the far side of the pub. And that was how it all ended, for the chick and the hairy guy. The tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of ag ...Show more
The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe, Jonathan Coe
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful co ...Show more
The Rotters' Club by Jonathan Coe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful co ...Show more
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems. Then a business proposition ...Show more
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 on Facebook. He's not even sure whether he's got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way which involves a long ...Show more
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim by Jonathan Coe
$22.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
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 on Facebook. He's not even sure whether he's got a job until suddenly a strange business proposition comes his way which involves a long ...Show more
The Winshaw Legacy or What a Carve up! by Jonathan Coe
$24.50 AUD
Category: Fiction
A postmodern detective story, a scathing send-up of the rapacious eighties, a macabre Gothic - all rolled up in a bravura tragicomic entertainment. The Winshaw family, as their official biographer is warned by old Mortimer Winshaw himself, is 'the meanest, greediest, cruellest bunch of backstabbing penn ...Show more
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad kinfeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. He is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members ...Show more
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is a brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably, Michael is c ...Show more
What a Carve Up! by Jonathan Coe, Jonathan Coe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film, 'What A Carve Up!' in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages. Inexplicably, Michael is commissio ...Show more
What a Carve Up!: Penguin Street Art by Jonathan Coe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Street Art
'Tragedy had struck the Winshaws twice before, but never on such a terrible scale' Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's turning hospitals into carparks; Roddy's selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy's squeezing every last pound from her livest ...Show more