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9th & 13th (PEN 70) by Jonathan Coe
4.95 NZD
5.00 (1% off)
Category: Fiction | 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
Bournville by Jonathan Coe
37.00 NZD
Category: Historical 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
Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe
37.00 NZD
Category: General 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
Like a Fiery Elephant : The story of B S Johnson by Jonathan Coe
27.95 NZD
29.95 (6% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
The critically acclaimed biography of a man respected for his fierce commitment to truth and honesty, and his passionate belief in the avant-garde. In his heyday, during the 1960s and early 1970s, B. S. Johnson was one of the best-known young novelists in Britain. A passionate advocate for the avant-gar ...Show more
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
37.00 NZD
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
Middle England by Jonathan Coe
26.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change.There are newlyweds Ian and Sophie, wh ...Show more
Mr Wilder and Me by Jonathan Coe
37.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary 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
The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Compulsively readable - the much-anticipated follow-up to Coe's bestselling novel The Rotters' Club. Set against the backdrop of the Millenium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's war against terrorism, The Closed Circle lifts the lid on an era in which politics and ...Show more
The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe
35.00 NZD
37.95 (7% off)
Category: Fiction
Set against the backdrop of the Millennium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's 'war against terrorism', The Closed Circle lifts the lid on an era in which politics and presentation, ideology and the media have become virtually indistinguishable. Darkly comic, hugely eng ...Show more
The Closed Circle by Jonathan Coe, Jonathan Coe
30.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
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 fact, his younger brother, Paul, now a bright young New Labour MP who has bought wholeheartedly into the Bla ...Show more
The Rain Before It Falls by Jonathan Coe
25.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A heartbreaking novel of family secrets from one of the masters of modern fiction, The Rain Before it Falls is part of our Penguin Essentials series which spotlights the very best of our modern classicsDeeply moving and compelling, The Rain Before it Falls is the story of three generations of one family ...Show more
The Rain Before it Falls by Jonathan Coe
37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
'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 Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story but the story of the youn ...Show more