COE JONATHAN

(P/B) MR WILDER AND ME
In the heady summer of 1977, a naive 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 Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends in this glamorous, unfamiliar new life will change her for good. While Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realisation that his star may be on the wane. Rebuffed by Hollywood, he has financed his...
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Ο ΙΔΙΩΤΙΚΟΣ ΒΙΟΣ ΤΟΥ ΜΑΞΟΥΕΛ ΣΙΜ
Ο Μάξουελ Σιμ έχει πολλά προβλήματα. Είναι σαράντα οκτώ, η γυναίκα του τον έχει εγκαταλείψει, η σχέση του με τον πατέρα του παραμένει δυσλειτουργική, έχει παρατήσει τη δουλειά του λόγω κατάθλιψης, και οι εβδομήντα-τόσοι φίλοι του είναι όλοι από το Facebook. Ελπίζοντας σε μια καινούργια αρχή, αποδέχεται μια επαγγελματική πρόταση που θα τον οδηγήσει σε ένα μεγάλο ταξίδι, οδικώς, από το Λονδίνο έως το βορειότατο άκρο του Ηνωμένου Βασιλείου. Εκεί, στον δρόμο, με συντροφιά την ιστορία του βασανισμένου θαλασσοπόρου Ντόναλντ Κρόουχερστ και του ...
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THE ACCIDENTAL WOMAN
For Maria, nothing is certain. Her life is a chain of accidents. Friendship passes her by, and she's unimpressed by the devoted Ronny and his endless propsals of marriage. Maria lives in a world of her own - yet not of her own making. Stumbling through university, work, marriage and motherhood, she finds it hard to see what all the fuss is about. Will she ever be able to control the direction of her life? Or will it end, as it began, by accident? What does chance have in store for the accidental woman?(from the publisher)...
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(P/B) EXPO 58
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 presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century. As soon as he arrives, Thomas is equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic Atomium, which stands at the heart of this brave new world, and by Anneke, a lovely Flemish hostess. But Thomas's new-found sense of freedom comes at a price: two British spies are f...
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(P/B) NUMBER 11
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. It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best - showing us how we live now. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) BOURNVILLE
In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for decades. Mary will go on to live through the Coronation and the World Cup final, royal weddings and royal funerals, Brexit and Covid-19. She'll have children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Parts of the chocolate factory will be transformed into a theme ...
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THE CLOSED CIRCLE
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 Blairite dream. Neither of them can know that their lives are about to implode. Set against the backdrop of a changing Britain and the country's increasingly compromised role in America's 'war against terrorism', the characters struggle to make...
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(H/B) BOURNVILLE
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 family. In Bournville, a placid suburb of Birmingham, sits a famous chocolate factory. For eleven-year-old Mary and her family in 1945, it's the centre of the world. The reason their streets smell faintly of chocolate, the place where most of their friends and neighbours have worked for decades. Mary will go on to live through the Coronation and the World Cup fi...
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(P/B) MR WILDER AND ME
In the heady summer of 1977, a naive 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 Hollywood director Billy Wilder, about whom she knows almost nothing. But the time she spends in this glamorous, unfamiliar new life will change her for good. While Calista is thrilled with her new adventure, Wilder himself is living with the realisation that his star may be on the wane. Rebuffed by Hollywood, he has financed his...
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(P/B) MIDDLE ENGLAND
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, who disagree about the future of the country and, possibly, the future of their relationship; Doug, the political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his Chelsea townhouse, and his radical teenage daughter who will...
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(P/B) A TOUCH OF LOVE
Robin, a postgraduate 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. Now his unfinished thesis languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn't understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him. His only outlet is his short stories, scribbled in notebooks and expressing h...
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(P/B) THE DWARVES OF DEATH
William has a lot on his mind. Firstly, there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good, and they make his songs sound about as groovy as an impressed record. In fact they're so bad he's seriously thinking of leaving to join a group" called The Unfortunates. Secondly, there's Madeline, his high-maintenance girlfriend whose idea of a night of passion is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical followed by a doorstep peck on the cheek. Maybe they're not soulmates after all? Lastly, there's the bizarre murder he's just witnessed. Th...
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(H/B) THE STORY OF GULLIVER
Gulliver is a travel-hungry and adventurous ship's doctor, who has the odd misfortune of being ship-wrecked four times in as many voyages. Through Jonathan Coe's expert retelling of Swift's famous satire about our human hubris and desires, today's young readers are swept along as Gulliver finds himself a giant among tiny humans in Lilliput; a tiny human among giants in Brobdignag; on the flying island of Laputa, with its most impractical intellectuals; and finally in the land of the Houyhnhnms, talking horses who think precious little of h...
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(P/B) NUMBER 11
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 us all. It's about living in a city where bankers need cinemas in their basements and others need food banks down the street. It is Jonathan Coe doing what he does best - showing us how we live now. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) LIKE A FIERY ELEPHANT
Jonathan Coe's long-awaited biography of the avant-garde writer B. S. Johnson has been hailed as a groundbreaking work. Pushing against the conventional form, Coe challenges our very approach to literary biography, just as Johnson notoriously pushed the formal limitations of the novel - struggling always with his fundamental conviction that "telling stories is telling lies". Combining the skills of a first-class novelist with a biographer's rigorous commitment to his subject, Coe paints a heartfelt picture of Johnson through unique access ...
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(P/B) EXPO 58
London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk 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 the World's Fair, Expo 58. As soon as he arrives at the site, Thomas feels that he has escaped a repressed, backward-looking country and fallen headlong into an era of modernity and optimism. He is equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic Atomium, which stands at the heart of this brave new world, and by Anneke...
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WHAT A CARVE UP! (CELEBRATIONS / SERIES)

(H/B) THE RAIN BEFORE IT FALLS

9th AND 13th

(H/B) THE TERRIBLE PRIVACY OF MAXWELL SIM