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Jonathan Coe

Writer

Books

Fiction

Mr Wilder and Me
Middle England
Number 11
Loggerheads and Other Stories
Expo 58
The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
The Rain Before It Falls
The Closed Circle
The Rotters’ Club
The House of Sleep
What a Carve Up!
The Dwarves of Death
A Touch of Love
The Accidental Woman

Non-Fiction

Marginal Notes, Doubtful Statements: Non-fiction, 1990-2013
Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of B.S. Johnson
James Stewart: Leading Man
Humphrey Bogart: Take It And Like It

Children’s

The Broken Mirror
The Story of Gulliver

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Jonathan Coe was born on 19 August 1961 in Lickey, a suburb of south-west Birmingham. His first surviving story, a detective thriller called The Castle of Mystery, was written at the age of eight. The first few pages of this story appear in his novel What a Carve Up!.

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Some Musical News

In my novel The Rotters’ Club, Benjamin Trotter writes a piece of music dedicated to the love of his life, Cicely Boyd. The title is ‘Seascape No. 4’. I once wrote a piece of music with this same title (well, almost – it had no ‘No. 4’, and there was never any ‘Nos. 1-3’). One afternoon in 1986 I re…

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On David Nobbs

At last, the BBC are repeating David Nobbs’s classic comedy series The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin (Tuesday nights, BBC4, 8.30 pm). As I’m sure you know, this show was adapted by David himself from his own novel (originally entitled The Death of Reginald Perrin). This is my introduction to the…

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