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Jonathan Coe

Also known as: Jonathan COE

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Jonathan Coe (; born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s.

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One winter's morning, seven years ago, I found myself on an escalator.

— from Mr Wilder and Me

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#1

The closed circle

2004

4.0 (1)

Set against the backdrop of the Millenium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's 'war against terrorism', The Closed Circle lifts the lid on an era in which politics and presentation, ideology and the media have become virtually indistinguishable. Darkly comic, hugely engaging, and compulsively readable, it is the much-anticipated follow-up to Jonathan Coe's bestselling novel The Rotters' Club, and reintroduces us to the characters first encountered in that book. But whereas The Rotters' Club was a novel of innocence, The Closed Circle is its opposite: a novel of experience.

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A Touch of Love

1997

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THROUGH A WOMAN'S EYES... Though her bestselling motivational books had helped thousands of people achieve their personal best, Aubrey Glenn never claimed to possess psychic powers. Until ex-rodeo rider Jesse Barrett insisted that she use her intuitive abilities to help pick up the clues that could locate a family, missing and presumed murdered... LOVE IS DANGEROUS... Jesse's request took Aubrey to beautiful Sedona, Arizona, and into a world of dark secrets ... and imminent danger. But in this lush, magical place Aubrey began to uncover the deepest mysteries of sensuality, as her need for Jesse swept them both beyond the boundaries of ordinary passion. ...AND IRRESISTIBLE Now, in a desert of burning desire, their love is tested by the pain of betrayal. On the run, desperately clinging to life -- and each other -- Aubrey and Jesse must overcome their doubts and believe in the forces the eyes cannot see ... but the heart knows....

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Expo 58

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An English public employee becomes embroiled in a Soviet plot while he oversees the construction of an authentic British pub being showcased at the 1958 World's Fair in Brussels.

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