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Jonathan Coe: ‘I was a Tory until I read Tony Benn’

The author on getting hooked on Flann O’Brien, reassessing Kingsley Amis, and why his grandfather was outraged by Watership Down

The Guardian - UK

An exiled group within Labour is making a comeback – it could hold the key to repelling Farage

Many of Blue Labour’s diagnoses have been proved correct. With Reform targeting Labour’s working-class support, a reappraisal is overdue, says Guardian associate editor Julian Coman

The Guardian - UK

The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – a blue murder mystery

Set during Liz Truss’s premiership, Coe’s multilayered study of how things quickly fell apart is a whodunnit with a villain hiding in plain sight

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The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – ingenious cosy crime spoof

This tricksy caper ranges from 1980s Cambridge to the rise and fall of Liz Truss with entertaining results

The Guardian - UK

Novelist Jonathan Coe: ‘Liz Truss was very unimpressed to meet me’

His new novel is set during the former PM’s brief premiership, so what happened when they had dinner? The author on politics, cosy crime and bingeing Friends

The Guardian - UK

All psychotherapists in England must be regulated, experts say, after abuse claims rise

Exclusive: Lack of formal oversight means anyone can set up in practice and continue to work after misconduct cases, campaigners say

The Guardian - UK

Jonathan Coe and Kit de Waal among 35 writers of ‘protest zine’ defending threatened Birmingham libraries

Launched by poet Liz Berry and novelist Catherine O’Flynn, pieces for each of the city’s 35 branch libraries speak against a ‘tidal wave of market forces’

The Guardian - UK

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The best new novels for autumn 2024, from Sally Rooney to Jonathan Coe and Haruki Murakami

The biggest names are back in a stellar season for fiction, with rip-roaring feminist horror, revenge tales, family sagas, spy romps and more. Here’s our essential guide

The Guardian - UK

Can you beat the authors? Take the bumper books quiz of 2023!

Answer fiendish literary questions from Bernardine Evaristo, Nina Stibbe, Jonathan Coe and more. Plus, spot the 10 books hidden on our festive ice rink

The Guardian - UK

'The nationalisation of states is killing the European idea': EU book prize winner Menasse

Talking Europe hosts Austrian author Robert Menasse, the winner of the 2023 European Union book prize. The award was set up in 2007 to foster a European spirit and promote understanding of the EU from a cultural perspective. The prize has previously been bestowed on such towering figures as Jonathan…

France 24

Jonathan Coe: ‘People say, where’s the anger? It’s still there’

The acclaimed author on writing his most personal novel to date, finding inspiration on Twitter, and why he was horrified by Granta’s list of the best young British writers

The Guardian - UK

Do you remember the first time? Jonathan Coe, Róisín Murphy and more on their artistic debuts

What drew Howardena Pindell to painting circles? Is the album Sleaford Mods pressed just 50 copies of any good? And which TV spoof sent Kiell Smith-Bynoe viral? Writers, musicians, artists and actors recall their earliest works – warts and all

The Guardian - UK

What links Netflix’s Kaleidoscope to Jonathan Coe and Bryan Cranston?

A chain of connections that starts and finishes with the random-order eight-part crime thriller

The Guardian - UK

The best books to give as presents this Christmas

Authors and Observer critics choose the books they will be giving as gifts this year – and the one they’d like to find in their own stocking

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Jonathan Coe's Bournville is a prescient 'sate of the nation' elegy

IS Jonathan Coe the most prescient novelist working on these islands today? In his new novel, a grandson introduces his girlfriend to his…

Evening Standard

Salman Rushdie releases his first work since stabbing, an extract of his new novel

SALMAN Rushdie has released an extract from his new novel, his first new work since he was stabbed in the US this summer.

The Independent UK

5 new books to read this week

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer and Bournville by Jonathan Coe.

The Independent UK

Jonathan Coe: ‘I would really rather not live in interesting times, thank you’

Britain’s foremost state-of-the-nation chronicler is back with another generation-spanning novel, ‘Bournville’. He talks to Nick Duerden about making a living as an author, why he doesn’t write from anger, and how the country ended up in chaos

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The Guardian - UK

Bournville by Jonathan Coe review – a bittersweet slice of Britishness

Coe is a compassionate witness to key moments in the life of a family and a nation

The Independent UK

Books of the month: From Jonathan Coe’s Bournville to Bob Dylan’s essays

Martin Chilton reviews November’s biggest books for our monthly column

The Guardian - UK

Bournville by Jonathan Coe review – hugely impressive state-of-the-nation tale

The arch-Europhile examines Britain’s postwar history through the eyes of a Birmingham clan in this warm and poignant novel featuring several familiar characters

The Guardian - UK

Jonathan Coe: ‘We’re a nation driven by emotion and not by reason’

Tackling Brexit, Boris and his mother’s death during the pandemic, Jonathan Coe’s new state-of-the-nation novel puts Britain on the couch

The Guardian - UK

How the acclaimed Billy Wilder tried and failed to snub Hollywood

The new film Mr Wilder & Me reveals how a search for funding led the director on an uneasy journey back to the central Europe he fled

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