What a Carve Up!

A sustained feat of humour, suspense and polemic, full of twists and ironies – Hilary MantelA riveting social satire on the chattering and all-powerful upper classes * Time Out *Big, hilarious, intricate, furious, moving * Guardian *Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad - and peopled with a fine troupe of characters * The Times *A grand blast of popular literary entertainment – Laurence O’Toole * New Statesman *One of the most ambitious novels I have read in years and one which has pulled off the seemingly impossible trick of managing to be both amiable and angry at the same time * Spectator *A carve-up of contemporary Britain, What a Carve Up! is also a carve-up of a book, a vertiginous, exquisitely calculated collage of texts-within-texts… one of the few pieces of genuinely political post-modern fiction around * London Review of Books *An unusually entertaining novel, as well as being politically ambitious… it manages to switch from one tone to another with extraordinary deftness * BBC Radio Four *Coe effortlessly spans fifty years of British political change in this hugely entertaining novel, packed full of period detail, from forties schoolboy slang to modern media wars – Lavinia Greenlaw * Vogue *

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Europeen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Medicis tranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.

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