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The Rotters' Club
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  • Published: 3 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141910048
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416

The Rotters' Club

Formats & editions
Paperback
3 Sept 2019
EBook
3 Sept 2008
Audiobook
4 July 2019
Audiobook
25 Mar 2010
Paperback
27 Aug 2014
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A comic, nostalgic look at a pivotal time in British politics through the lens of a group of schoolboys coming to their own as editors of their school magazine, from one of our greatest British writers

Jonathan Coe's widely acclaimed novel is set in the 1970s against a distant backdrop of strikes, terrorist attacks and growing racial tension. A group of young friends inherit the editorship of their school magazine and begin to put their own distinctive spin onto events in the wider world. A zestful comedy of personal and social upheaval, The Rotters' Club 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.
  • Published: 3 September 2008
  • ISBN: 9780141910048
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 416
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About the author

Jonathan Coe

Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of fifteen novels, including What a Carve Up!, The Rotters’ Club, Middle England and, most recently, The Proof of My Innocence. He has won the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Européen, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix Médicis Étranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into twenty-two languages. Jonathan Coe lives in London.

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The Proof of My Innocence
Bournville
Mr Wilder and Me
Middle England
The Broken Mirror
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Praise for The Rotters' Club

Wonderful storytelling

Paul Merton

A book to cherish, a book to reread, a book to buy for all your friends

Independent on Sunday

Very funny... a compulsive and gripping read. Coe has achieved that rare feat: a novel stuffed with characters you really care for

The Times

One of those sweeping, ambitious yet hugely readable, moving, richly comic novels that you find all too rarely in English fiction ... a masterpiece

Daily Telegraph
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