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What a Carve Up!
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  • Published: 1 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241978917
  • Imprint: Penguin General UK
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 512
  • RRP: $29.99

What a Carve Up!

‘Everything a novel ought to be: courageous, challenging, funny, sad’ The Times

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Paperback
1 Oct 2016
Paperback
27 Aug 2014
EBook
3 Sept 2008
Audiobook
25 Apr 2019
Audiobook
25 Mar 2010
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The hilarious 1980s political satire by Jonathan Coe, published as a Penguin Essential for the first time

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: 1 October 2016
  • ISBN: 9780241978917
  • 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 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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Middle England
The Proof of My Innocence
Mr Wilder and Me
The Rotters' Club
The Broken Mirror
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