Jonathan Coe

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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1995
  • Latest Book:
    April 2025
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Full Series List in Order

Winshaw Legacy

1 - The Winshaw Legacy or, What a Carve Up! (Feb-1995)
2 - Number 11 (Jan-2017)

Book List in Order: 19 titles

  • The Winshaw Legacy or, What a Carve Up!

    Winshaw Legacy - 1

    'I could recommend The Winshaw Legacy as I a superb political novel, or as a fiendishly clever meta-novel, or as a unique modern historical novel, or as a riveting family saga, but I'm afraid that would drive everyone, yawning in terror, straight out...

  • The House of Sleep

    A dream of a novel."--Erica Wagner, The Times (London)Following The Winshaw Legacy--Coe's ecstatically reviewed American debut, winner of the John Lewellyn Rhys Prize in England and France's coveted Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger--comes this beguil...

  • The Accidental Woman

    Indifferent by choice, indecisive by nature, Maria ploughs her way through fifteen years of womanhood, unable to see what all the fuss is about. Will she ever be able to direct the course of her own life, or will it end as it began - accidentally? Jo...

  • A Touch of Love

    Robin once had promise. Now he has an unfinished thesis in his drawer. Hidden away in his room in Coventry, he writes a sequence of short stories in four notebooks, each an oblique commentary on his circumstances. Then a comical misunderstanding in a...

  • The Dwarves of Death

    William's life is beset with frustration: his band turns his melodic songs into grotesque parodies of Status Quo, and cool Madelaine dangles out of reach. Things could hardly get worse, it seems - until he becomes the only witness to a bizarre murder...

  • The Rotters' Club

    Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings. Four friends: a class clown who stoops very low for a laugh; a confused artist enthralled by guitar rock; an earnest radical wit...

  • The Closed Circle

    The characters of The Rotters’ Club"Jonathan Coe’s beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s"have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium....

  • The Rain Before It Falls

    Following The Rotters' Club and its sequel, The Closed Circle, Jonathan Coe now offers his first stand-alone novel in a decade, a story of three generations of women whose destinies reach from the English countryside in World War II to London, Toront...

  • The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim

    Maxwell Sim can't seem to make a single meaningful connection. His absent father was always more interested in poetry; he maintains an e-mail correspondence with his estranged wife, though under a false identity; his incomprehensible teenage daughter...



  • Pentatonic

    Jonathan Coe's Pentatonic is a daring and original story about family and memory inspired by music.When a family celebrates the prize-giving day at their daughter's secondary school, thoughts turn to their own childhoods. The father remembers his liv...

  • What a Carve Up!

    What a Carve Up! - a hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe

    It is the 1980s and the Winshaw family are getting richer and crueller by the year:

    Newspaper-columnist Hilary gets thousands for telling it like it isn't; Henry's ...

  • Expo 58

    A comic spy caper and international love story, set in Europe in the middle of the last century, Expo 58 is the latest sublime creation by Jonathan Coe, hailed by Nick Hornby as “probably the best English novelist of his generation.”

    Han...

  • Number 11

    Winshaw Legacy - 2

    The long-awaited sequel to The Winshaw Legacy, the novel that introduced American readers to one of Britain's most exciting new writers--an acerbic, hilariously dark, and unflinching portrait of modern society. The novel opens in the early aughts:...

  • The Broken Mirror

     Can desire really transform reality?From award-winning novelist Jonathan Coe and distinguished Italian artist Chiara Coccorese comes The Broken Mirror, a political parable for children, a contemporary fairy tale for adults, and a fable for all ...

  • The Story of Gulliver

  • Middle England

    From the acclaimed author of The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle comes the novel for our strange contemporary times. Beginning nine years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by chain retail, and Londo...

  • Mr. Wilder and Me

    A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE FROM THE AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE ROTTERS’ CLUB AND MIDDLE ENGLAND In the heady summer of 1977, a naïve young woman called Calista sets out from Athens to venture into the wider world. On a Greek island that...

  • Bournville

    A tender and wickedly funny portrait of England told through four generations of one family.Bournville is a quiet village in the heart of England famous for its chocolate. For eleven-year-old Mary, it is the center of her world, the place where most ...

  • The Proof of My Innocence

    A blisteringly funny political critique wrapped up in a murder mystery, from one of Britain’s most beloved novelists Post-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly living back home with her parents, working a zero-hour con...



Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Jonathan Coe has published 19 books.

The next book by Jonathan Coe, The Proof of My Innocence, will be published in April 2025.

The first book by Jonathan Coe, The Winshaw Legacy or, What a Carve Up!, was published in February 1995.

Yes. Jonathan Coe has 1 series.
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