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L'Exposition universelle et internationale de Bruxelles del 1958 è il primo evento del genere dopo la Seconda guerra mondiale. La tensione politica tra la Nato e i paesi del blocco sovietico è al culmine. In piena Guerra fredda, dietro la facciata di una manifestazione che si propone di avvicinare i popoli della Terra, fervono operazioni d'intelligence in cui le grandi potenze si spiano a vicenda. Incaricato di sovrintendere alla gestione del ...

Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club and Number 11. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.

Robin, a postgrad student in Coventry, has spent four and a half years not writing his thesis. Now it languishes in a drawer, and Robin hides in his room, increasingly frightened by a world he doesn't understand. His friends have failed him and romance eludes him.

Jonathan Coe is the author of thirteen novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club, Number 11 and Middle England. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.

Jonathan Coe is the author of thirteen novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club, Number 11 and Middle England. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.

Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club and Number 11. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.

Jonathan Coe is the author of thirteen novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club, Number 11 and Middle England. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.

William has a lot on his mind. Firstly there's The Alaska Factory, the band he plays in. They're no good and they make his songs sound about as groovy as an unpressed record. Secondly, there's Madeleine, his high-maintenance girlfriend whose idea of a night of passion is an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical followed by a doorstep peck on the cheek.

Jonathan Coe is the author of thirteen novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club, Number 11 and Middle England. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.

Jonathan Coe is the author of thirteen novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club, Number 11 and Middle England. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.

Through Jonathan Coe's expert retelling of Swift's famous satire about human hubris and desires, young readers are swept along as Gulliver finds himself in Lilliput and Brobdignag, on the flying island of Laputa, and in the land of the Houyhnhnms, talking horses who think precious little of human "Yahoos".

The critically acclaimed biography of a man respected for his fierce commitment to truth and honesty, and his passionate belief in the avant-garde.

Over a career that spanned forty-three years and seventy-seven films, Jimmy Stewart went from leading man to national idol. Classics such as Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Philadelphia Story, Harvey, and, of course, It's A Wonderful Life are far more than mere movies, they are visions of America as it wanted to be seen. With his inimitable (though widely mimicked) down-home drawl, Jimmy Stewart came to embody the ideal American male, lean, ...

Londen, 1958. Thomas Foley, een weinig opvallende ambtenaar, wordt achter zijn bureau vandaan geplukt en op werkreis naar Brussel gestuurd. Zijn taak: een oogje in het zeil houden bij de Britannia, een bar die het hart zal vormen van het Engelse paviljoen tijdens de Expo 58 - de grootste wereldtentoonstelling van de twintigste eeuw en de eerste sinds de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Zodra hij in Brussel arriveert, voelt Thomas zich bevrijd van de keten...

Cuore di questo romanzo è un edificio abbarbicato in cima a uno scoglio a picco sull'oceano: la "casa del sonno" del titolo. Nei primi anni Ottanta è un alloggio per studenti universitari. E' qui che si incontrano, si sfiorano o s'ignorano i destini dei personaggi.

Per Maria non c'è nulla di certo. La sua vita è una sequenza di episodi accidentali. L'amicizia di chi la circonda non la smuove, e non la smuovono neppure le reiterate offerte di matrimonio da parte di Ronny, innamorato devoto. Le piace vivere dentro i confini che certamente sente come il suo mondo ma che altrettanto sicuramente sa non essere prodotto di una "sua" precisa volontà. Si laurea, si sposa, ha un figlio e continua a non capire come...

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9 marzo 2009, Maxwell Sim, neo-agente di commercio, viene trovato nudo e in coma etilico nella sua auto in Scozia, durante una bufera di neve. Nel bagagliaio un cartone pieno di spazzolini ecologici. Cos'è accaduto? Com'è arrivato fin lì? Torniamo indietro di qualche mese: Maxwell ha quarantotto anni e sta attraversando un periodo difficile, sembra aver toccato il fondo. Appena divorziato, in cattivi rapporti con il padre, incapace di comunica...

A new satire of the modern world, featuring characters from Coe's earlier novel "What A Carve Up!". Moving from the distant rumble of the Iraq War to the austerity years of Britain today, it follows 2 girls who have come of age in an era of reality TV and social media. 'Coe is among the handful of novelists who can tell us something about the temper of our times' "Observer

Jonathan Coe is the author of twelve novels, all published by Penguin, which include the highly acclaimed bestsellers What a Carve Up!, The House of Sleep, The Rotters' Club and Number 11. He is also the author of a biography of B.S Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, and The Broken Mirror, a children's book.