The Rotters' Club : ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily Telegraph

The Rotters' Club : ‘One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels’ Daily TelegraphAuthor: Coe, Jonathan Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) Published on 26 June 2014 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom. Paperback 416 pages 193 x 131 x 27 292g The first in The Rotters' Club series, bestselling author Jonathan Coe's iconic tale of Benjamin Trotter is a hilarious, heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up WINNER OF THE EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop

stone-cold classic that should be spoken of in the same breath - and read as religiously - as Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird' THE TIMES'A genuine classic

a murder interrupts filming on set - and it's an ingenious one

Solzhenitsyn made his long-awaited return to Russia

and from Baa Baa Black Sheep to Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

But then one of the stunts goes TERRIBLY WRONG

The titans of German industry - set to prosper under the Nazi government - gather to lend their support to Adolf Hitler

and how forgiveness is the key to recovery

a story hidden thousands of miles away and years ago

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