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(0)Jonathan Coe
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
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 has been turned into a film set, she finds herself working for the famed Hollywood director
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Series
Rotters' Club volume 1
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
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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 with socialist leanings; and a quiet dreamer obsessed with poetry, God, and the prettiest girl in school. As the world appears to self-destruct around them, they hold together to navigate the choppy waters...
3) Bournville
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
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Description
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 of her family's friends and neighbors have worked for decades and where the streets smell faintly of chocolate.
During the next three-quarters of a century,
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