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Expo 58
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  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241966907
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $35.00

Expo 58

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EBook
6 Feb 2014
Audiobook
5 Sept 2013
Paperback
27 Aug 2014
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Good-looking girls and sinister spies: a naive Englishman loose in Europe in Jonathan Coe's brilliant comic novel

London, 1958: unassuming civil servant Thomas Foley is plucked from his desk job and sent on a six-month trip to Brussels. His task: to keep an eye on The Britannia, a brand new pub which will form the heart of the British presence at Expo 58 - the biggest World's Fair of the century.

As soon as he arrives, Thomas is equally bewitched by the surreal, gigantic Atomium, which stands at the heart of this brave new world, and by Anneke, a lovely Flemish hostess. But Thomas's new-found sense of freedom comes at a price: two British spies are following him.
  • Published: 27 August 2014
  • ISBN: 9780241966907
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $35.00
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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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Also by Jonathan Coe

Bournville
Middle England
What a Carve Up!
The Proof of My Innocence
Mr Wilder and Me
The Rotters' Club
The Broken Mirror
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Praise for Expo 58

Clever and funny, enthralling and moving, this is, for my money, Coe's best novel since What A Carve-Up! Wonderful

Daily Mail

Coe has huge powers of observation and enormous literary panache

Sunday Times

Expo 58 is Coe at his funny-serious best, offering his idiosyncratic mixture of slapstick and profundity in a love-and-spies story set at the height of the cold war

FT

Coe is among the handful of novelists who can tell us something about the temper of our times

Observer