Middle England
Middle England

Author: Jonathan Coe

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2019-08-20

Total Pages: 449

ISBN-13: 0525656480

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A comedy for our times” (The Guardian), Middle England is a piercing and provocative novel about a country in crisis. From the frenzy of the 2012 Olympics to the aftermath of the Brexit referendum, here Jonathan Coe chronicles the story of modern Britain by way of a cast of characters whose world is being upended. There are newlyweds who disagree about the country’s future and, possibly, their relationship; a political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his lavish town house while his radical teenage daughter undertakes a relentless quest for universal justice; and Benjamin Trotter, who embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age, and his father, whose last wish is to vote to leave the European Union. A sequel to The Rotters’ Club and The Closed Circle that stands entirely alone, Middle England is a darkly comic look at our strange new world.

The Rotters' Club
The Rotters' Club

Author: Jonathan Coe

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 434

ISBN-13: 030742927X

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Birmingham, England, c. 1973: industrial strikes, bad pop music, corrosive class warfare, adolescent angst, IRA bombings. Four friends: a class clown who stoops very low for a laugh; a confused artist enthralled by guitar rock; an earnest radical with socialist leanings; and a quiet dreamer obsessed with poetry, God, and the prettiest girl in school. As the world appears to self-destruct around them, they hold together to navigate the choppy waters of a decidedly ambiguous decade.

The Closed Circle
The Closed Circle

Author: Jonathan Coe

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2007-12-18

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 0307428265

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The characters of The Rotters’ Club–Jonathan Coe’s beloved novel of adolescent life in the 1970s–have bartered their innocence for the vengeance of middle age in this incisive portrait of Cool Britannia at the millennium.

England in the Later Middle Ages
England in the Later Middle Ages

Author: M.H. Keen

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-08-02

Total Pages: 496

ISBN-13: 113448304X

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First published to wide critical acclaim in 1973, England in the Later Middle Ages has become a seminal text for students studying this diverse, constantly changing period. The second edition of this book, while maintaining the character of the

Middle England
Middle England

Author: Jonathan Coe

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2018-11-08

Total Pages: 507

ISBN-13: 0241981328

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WINNER OF THE THE COSTA NOVEL AWARD 2019 'The book everyone is talking about' The Times 'A comedy for our times' Guardian __________________ The country is changing and, up and down the land, cracks are appearing - within families and between generations. In the Midlands Benjamin Trotter is trying to help his aged father navigate a Britain that seems to have forgotten he exists, whilst in London his friend Doug doesn't understand why his teenage daughter is eternally enraged. Meanwhile, newlyweds Sophie and Ian can find nothing to agree on except the fact that their marriage is on the rocks . . . A hilarious follow-up to The Rotters' Club and Closed Circle, Jonathan Coe captures the state of our nation once again! __________________ 'Coe's back with a bang. Middle England is the novel about Brexit we need' Daily Telegraph 'A pertinent, entertaining study of a nation in crisis' Financial Times, Books of the Year 'Very funny. Coe - a writer of uncommon decency - reminds us that the way out of this mess is through moderation, through compromise, through that age-old English ability to laugh at ourselves' Observer Written with his signature wit, Jonathan Coe's unmissable new novel, The Proof of My Innocence, is available to pre-order now!

Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages
Standards of Living in the Later Middle Ages

Author: Christopher Dyer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1989-03-09

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9780521272155

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Between 1200 and 1520 medieval English society went through a series of upheavals: this was an age of war, pestilence and rebellion. This book explores the realities of life of the people who lived through those stirring times. It looks in turn at aristocrats, peasants, townsmen, wage-earners and paupers, and examines how they obtained their incomes and how they spent them. This revised edition (1998) includes a substantial new concluding chapter and an updated bibliography.

Crime and Social Change in Middle England
Crime and Social Change in Middle England

Author: Evi Girling

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2005-06-23

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 113467175X

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Crime and Social Change in Middle England offers a new way of looking at contemporary debates on the fear of crime. Using observation, interviews and documentary analysis it traces the reactions of citizens of one very ordinary town to events, conflicts and controversies around such topical subjects of criminological investigation as youth, public order, drugs, policing and home security in their community. In doing so it moves in place from comfortable suburbs to hard pressed inner city estates, from the affluent to the impoverished, from old people watching the town where they grew up change around them to young in-comers who are part of that change. This is a book which will give all students of crime a rare and fascinating insight into how issues at the heart of contemporary law and order politics both nationally and internationally actually play out on the ground.

A Social History of Milton Keynes
A Social History of Milton Keynes

Author: Mark Clapson

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780714655246

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This book discusses the prejudices that have distorted understandings of the city of Milton Keynes and focuses upon the original thinking that went into the planning of Milton Keynes.

Adventures on the High Teas
Adventures on the High Teas

Author: Stuart Maconie

Publisher: Random House

Published: 2009-03-05

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 1407026984

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Everyone talks about 'Middle England'. Sometimes they mean something bad, like a lynch mob of Daily Mail readers, and sometimes they mean something good, like a pint of ale in a sleepy Cotswold village in summer twilight. But just where and what is Middle England? Stuart Maconie didn't know either, so he packed his Thermos and sandwiches and set off to find out... Is Middle England about tradition and decency or closed minds and bigotry? Is it maypoles and evensong, or flooded market towns and binge drinkers in the park? And is Slough really as bad as Ricky Gervais and John Betjeman make out? From Shakespeare to JK Rowling, Vaughan Williams to Craig David, William Morris to B&Q, Stuart Maconie leads the expedition, with plenty of stop-offs for tea and scones, to discover the truth.