Jonathan Coe was born on 19 August 1961 in Lickey, a suburb of south-west Birmingham. His father worked in the motor industry as a research physicist; his mother was a music and PE teacher.
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• Expo 58
• The Terrible Privacy of Maxwell Sim
• The Rain Before It Falls
• The Closed Circle
• The Rotters' Club
• The House of Sleep
• What a Carve Up!
• The Dwarves of Death
• A Touch of Love
• The Accidental Woman


• The Broken Mirror
• The Story of Gulliver
• Like A Fiery Elephant: The Story of BS Johnson
• Others