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- What a Carve Up! 1,563 copies, 33 reviews
- The Rotters' Club 1,388 copies, 21 reviews
- The house of sleep 1,194 copies, 28 reviews
- The Closed Circle 800 copies, 14 reviews
- The Rain Before It Falls 708 copies, 38 reviews
- The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim 406 copies, 23 reviews
- The Dwarves of Death 245 copies, 9 reviews
- A Touch of Love 193 copies, 1 review
- The Accidental Woman 186 copies, 5 reviews
- Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson 175 copies, 1 review
- 9th and 13th 78 copies
- Humphrey Bogart: Take It and Like It 29 copies, 1 review
- Désaccords imparfaits 5 copies
- Jimmy Stewart: A Wonderful Life 4 copies
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Sebastian Barry, Jonathan Coe Sebastian Barry, The Secret Scripture.; Jonathan Coe, The Rain Before It Falls. Admission €10.00/€8.00. "How does the novelist refract, through the haze of memory, the secret history of a life long-lived? How does the past hold the present in its thrall? And how do these recollections help shape our understanding of our own lives? Two new novels explore this fertile terrain with compelling results." (christiguc)… (more)
Literary Love Affairs Carmen Callil, Bad Faith.; Jonathan Coe, The Rain Before it Falls. Tickets £10. "This year is the 30th anniversary of Virago Modern Classics - dedicated to the celebration of women writers and founded by Carmen Callil. Novelist Jonathan Coe freely acknowledges his debt to these rediscovered female authors. They discuss the impact of Virago on writers and readers and the influence of Rosamond Lehmann on Coe’s new novel, The Rain Before it Falls, a traumatic family saga, set in the second-half of the 20th century. Jonathan Coe’s previous books include the award-winning What a Carve Up and The Rotter’s Club. Carmen Callil is the author of Bad Faith." (christiguc)… (more)
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| Canonical name | | | Legal name | | | Other names | | | Date of birth | | | Date of death | | | Burial location | | | Gender | | | Nationality | | | Country (for map) | | | Birthplace | | | Place of death | | | Places of residence | | | Education | | | Occupations | | | Relationships | | | Organizations | | | Awards and honors | | | Agents | | | Short biography | Novelist Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and completed a Ph.D. on Henry Fielding's Tom Jones at Warwick University. He taught English Poetry at Warwick, subsequently working as a professional musician, writing music for jazz and cabaret. He also worked as a legal proofreader before becoming a freelance writer and journalist.
He is the author of several novels including The Dwarves of Death (1990), a cult murder story filmed as Five Seconds to Spare in 1999; the acclaimed What a Carve Up! (1994), a caustic satire of British life in the 1980s and winner of the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger (France); and The House of Sleep (1997), which won the Writers' Guild Award (Best Fiction) and the Prix Médicis Etranger (France) and recounts the adventures of a group of former university students, reunited at the mysterious cliff-top house where they used to live. The Rotters' Club (2001), is set in Birmingham during the 1970s and tells the story of a group of school friends working on the school magazine. It was adapted for BBC Television in 2005. A sequel, The Closed Circle, was published in 2004.
Jonathan Coe is also the author of two biographies of film actors, Humphrey Bogart and James Stewart. His biography of the novelist B. S. Johnson was published in 2004 and won the Samuel Johnson Prize.
A collection of short fiction and non-fiction, 9th and 13th, was published in 2005. His latest book is The Rain Before It Falls (2007).
Jonathan Coe lives in London.
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