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Rosemund lies dying in her remote Shropshire home. But before she does so, she has one last task: to put on tape not just her own story, but the story of the young blind girl, her cousin's granddaughter, who turned up mysteriously at her party all those years ago. This is a story of generations, of the relationships within a family - and of what goes to make a child.

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The hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.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 turning hospitals into car parks; Roddy''s selling art in return for sex; down on the farm Dorothy''s squeezing every last pound from her livestock; Thomas is making a killing on the stock exchange; and Mark is selling arms to dictators.But once their hapless biographer Michael Owen starts investigating the family''s trail of greed, corruption and immoral doings, the time growing ripe for the Winshaws to receive their comeuppance...

Rosamond vient de mourir, mais sa voix résonne encore, dans une confession enregistrée, adressée à la mystérieuse Imogen. S''appuyant sur vingt photos soigneusement choisies, elle laisse libre cours

Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems. Then a business ... Show more Maxwell Sim seems to have hit rock bottom. Estranged from his father, newly divorced, unable to communicate with his only daughter, he realizes that while he may have seventy-four friends on Facebook, there is nobody in the world with whom he can actually share his problems. Then a business proposition comes his way - a strange exercise in corporate PR that will require him to spend a week driving from London to a remote retail outlet on the Shetland Isles. Setting out with an open mind, good intentions and a friendly voice on his SatNav for company, Maxwell finds that this journey soon takes a more serious turn, and carries him not only to the furthest point of the United Kingdom, but into some of the deepest and darkest corners of his own past. In his sparkling and hugely enjoyable new book Jonathan Coe reinvents the picaresque novel for our time.

Michael Owen, un jeune homme dépressif et agoraphobe, a été chargé par la vieille Tabitha Winshaw d'écrire la chronique de cette illustre famille. Cette dynastie se taille en effet la part du lion dans tous les domaines de la vie publique de l'Angleterre des années quatre-vingt, profitant sans vergogne de ses attributions et de ses relations... Et si la tante Tabitha disait vrai ? Si les tragédies familiales jamais élucidées étaient en fait des crimes maquillés ? Par une nuit d'orage, alors que tous sont réunis au vieux manoir de Winshaw Towers, la vérité éclatera... Un véritable tour de force littéraire, à la fois roman policier et cinglante satire politique de l'establishment.

A warm-hearted story of Mr Hoppy, Mrs Silver and the tortoise who brings them together.

Maxwell Sim could be any of us. He could be you. He´s about to have a mid-life crisis (though he doesn´t know it yet). He´ll be found in his car in the north of Scotland, half-naked and alone, suffering hypothermia, with a couple of empty whisky bottles and a boot full of toothbrushes.

Rosamond vient de mourir, mais sa voix résonne encore, dans une confession enregistrée, adressée à la mystérieuse Imogen. S'appuyant sur vingt photos soigneusement choisies, elle laisse libre cours à

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 ages.One day Claire, to escape her quarrelsome parents, takes refuge in the dump behind her house. There she finds a broken mirror, a nasty piece of sharp glass yet she is strangely drawn to it. She soon discovers it has the power to transform even the most drab reality into a fairy-tale world: the grey sky is reflected blue, and Claires modest, suburban house is transformed into the most beautiful castle.

Michael is a lonely writer, obsessed by a film featuring a mad knifeman. When he is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws he realizes that the family have cast a blight on his life and he decides to take his revenge by re-enacting his favourite film.

L’Angleterre lui faisait l’effet d’un territoire calme et stable. D’un pays en bonne intelligence avec lui-même. Tout allait pour le mieux. »En dix ans, l’Angleterre est passée de la liesse des jeux

Imaginemos que Charles Dickens, Evelyn Waugh y Agatha Christie, de alguna milagrosa manera, hubieran planeado escribir una novela a seis manos: el resultado habría podido ser esta novela que nos introduce en el ambito de la mas poderosa familia de Inglaterra, y desde luego la mas canalla. La critica y el publico han coincidido en calificar ¡Menudo reparto! como una de las novelas politicas mas divertidas y al mismo tiempo mas serias de los ultimos años, en la que Jonathan Coe ha conseguido fusionar lo publico y lo privado en una farsa tragica de proporciones y de ambicion extraordinarias.En el verano de 1990, mientras Inglaterra esta al borde de una guerra contra Saddam Hussein, Michael Owen, un joven escritor sin blanca y con serios problemas emocionales, recibe el encargo de la anciana Tabitha Winshaw de escribir la biografia de su rica y famosa familia y llegar al fondo del posible asesinato de su hermano Godfrey, fallecido en 1942, segun ella a manos de uno de sus parientes.A partir de aqui se inicia el viaje de Owen al intrincado laberinto de personajes de la familia Winshaw, entre los que nos encontramos a Thomas, magnate del cine y voyeur, Dorothy, fabricante de comida basura y experta en maximizar la eficiencia de los mataderos; Mark, trafica

Dopo La famiglia Winshaw, un altro caleidoscopio di invenzioni narrative e un'altra girandola di personaggi ora commoventi ora comici, in un dormiveglia caotico che non conosce riposo. In La casa del sonno si racconta l'avventura di un gruppo di giovani. Da studenti, nei primi anni Ottanta, vivono tutti nella severa Ashdown: Gregory, che studia medicina e ha la mania di spiare il sonno altrui; Veronica, una lesbica volitiva, ultrapoliticizzata e appassionata di teatro; Terry, che dorme quattordici ore al giorno e da sveglio sogna di girare un film che richiedera cinquant'anni di riprese; Robert, romantico studente di lettere, che scrive poesie d'amore per Sarah; e Sarah, appunto, intorno alla quale girano le vicende di tutti gli altri. Dodici anni dopo, Ashdown e diventata una clinica dove si cura la narcolessia e nei sotterranei si svolgono oscuri esperimenti. E' un autentico "castello dei destini incrociati", dove si avverano sogni e si dissolvono visioni; dove c'e chi dorme troppo e chi troppo poco, chi ama sognare piuttosto che vivere e chi non vorrebbe perdere un solo minuto di vita nel sonno. E, mentre si interroga ossessivamente sul valore e il significato del sonno, l'eterogenea comunita di studenti, diventata adulta, inciampa nel malessere, nella follia e nelle comiche incongruenze della vita.

Michael is a lonely writer, obsessed by a film featuring a mad knifeman. When he is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws he realizes that the family have cast a blight on his life and he decides to take his revenge by re-enacting his favourite film.

Comment en est-on arrivé là ? C'est la question que se pose Jonathan Coe dans ce roman brillant qui chronique avec une ironie mordante l'histoire politique de l'Angleterre des années 2010. Du premier

A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, this book captures a fateful moment in British politics - the collapse of Old Labour - and imagines its impact on the topsy-turvy world of the bemused teenager: a world in which a lost pair of swimming trunks can be just as devastating as an IRA bomb.