Summary
‘Probably the best English novelist of his generation’ - Nick Hornby
London, 1958. Unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World’s Fair of the century.
As soon as he arrives, Thomas is equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic Atomium, which stands at the heart of this brave n…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241966907 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0241966906 |
| Author: | Jonathan Coe |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 27 August 2014 |
| Weight: | 206g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 129mm x 19mm |
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About The Author
Jonathan Coe
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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