There can be no other writer in the English language – or in any other language come to that – who would plot a novel with a corn plaster at its emotional heart. Only Jonathan Coe would dare take ...

Those of us that live, work or visit the capital regularly will at one time or another have been stuck in traffic. But when ...

Expo 58 by Jonathan Coe - Spies, girls and an Englishman abroad. Trust no one. London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels ...

EVERYBODY knows Atomium, one of the most famous Brussels landmarks. Fewer people remember that this depiction of an iron crystal, magnified 165 billion times, was an iconic model built for Expo ‘58, ...

In 1956, preparations had begun for the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. This was to be the first World’s Fair held since the end of World War II, the concept behind the Expo was to celebrate the ...

A veritable legion, these literary Jonathans. On the other side of the Atlantic, Franzen, Lethem and Safran Foer form a daunting triumvirate wading into the big themes, the American family, 9/11, the ...

If only Jonathan Coe had smirked a little less and told us much more about Belgium’s pivotal post-war trade fair, writes Hannah McGill There’s a peculiar mix of tones in Jonathan Coe’s fiction, which ...

In what a carve up! Jonathan Coe eviscerated the Thatcherite Eighties with his tale of ruthless politicians, hypocritical journalists, investment bankers and arms dealers. In The Rotters Club he drew ...

Jonathan Coe’s previous novel, The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim (2010), featured a Pooterish, middle-aged suburbanite thrust on a journey of personal ...