Jonathan Coe
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Jonathan Coe, born 19 August 1961 in Birmingham, is a British novelist and writer. His work usually has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this is often expressed seriously in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworked the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name, in the light of the 'carve up' of the UK's resources which some felt was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's right wing Conservative governments of the 1980s.
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Novels
- The Accidental Woman, Duckworth, 1987
- A Touch of Love, Duckworth, 1989
- The Dwarves of Death, Fourth Estate, 1990
- What a Carve Up! or The Winshaw Legacy Viking, 1994 (winner of the 1994 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize)
- The House of Sleep, Viking, 1997 (winner of the Prix Médicis)
- The Rotters' Club, Viking, 2001 (winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize).
- The Closed Circle, Viking, 2004
- The Rain Before It Falls, Viking, 2007
- The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim, Viking, 2010
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