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9th & 13th (PEN 70) by Jonathan Coe
$3.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Pocket Penguins S.
Every book tells a story . . . And the 70 titles in the Pocket Penguins Series are emblematic of the renowned breadth and quality that formed part of the original Penguin vision in 1935 and that continue to define our publishing today. Together, they tell one version of the unique story of Penguin Bo ...Show more
A Touch of Love by Jonathan Coe
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 spent hours discussing their theories, but they somehow never made it into print.
Bournville by Jonathan Coe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
From the bestselling author of Middle England and Mr Wilder and Me comes a brilliant new state of the nation novel. In the Birmingham suburb of Bournville, a family celebrate VE Day in 1945. With the joy of such an occasion there also come larger national questions about the nature of the horrific war ...Show more
Bournville by Jonathan Coe
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 familyIn Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her famil ...Show more
Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Brittania, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair o ...Show more
Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe - Spies, girls and an Englishman abroad. Trust no one. London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British pr ...Show more
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'COE IS AMONG THE HANDFUL OF NOVELISTS WHO CAN TELL US SOMETHING ABOUT THE TEMPER OF OUR TIMES' OBSERVER '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 rep ...Show more
Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
$32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The dazzling new novel 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 the famed Holl ...Show more
Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
**The dazzling new novel 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 the famed Hol ...Show more
Number 11 by Jonathan Coe
$19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 end of innocence. It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won. It's about how 140 characters can make fools of us all ...Show more
Number 11: Or Tales That Witness Madness by Jonathan Coe
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 end of innocence.It's about how comedy and politics are battling it out and comedy might have won.It's about how 140 characters can make fools of u ...Show more