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What a Carve Up!
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  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241967799
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $29.99

What a Carve Up!

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3 Sept 2008
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25 Apr 2019
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25 Mar 2010
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1 Oct 2016
Paperback
27 Aug 2014
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A very British upper-class family find themselves caught in a slasher-film come to life, in this spine-tingling, hilarious 1980s satire from one of our greatest British novelists

A brilliant noir farce, a dystopian vision and the story of an obsession. Michael is a lonely, rather pathetic writer, obsessed by the film 'What A Carve Up!', in which a mad knifeman cuts his way through the inhabitants of a decrepit stately pile as the thunder rages.

Inexplicably, Michael is commissioned to write the family history of the Winshaws, an upper class Yorkshire clan whose members have a finger in every establishment pie. But as a murderous maniac stalks the family, Michael realizes that his favourite film is coming true.
  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241967799
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $29.99
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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 a Commandeur 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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