Jonathan Coe
@jonathancoe
Writer. New novel is THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE. Previous titles include WHAT A CARVE UP!, THE ROTTERS' CLUB, MIDDLE ENGLAND, MR WILDER AND ME ...
Has anyone ever seen one of the three sequels to Midnight Run that were made in 1994?
Cover of new novel has quietly appeared online. It's a beauty, I think. www.penguin.co.uk/books/476261...
Watched The Driver's Seat (1974) last night. Such an odd film. One odd thing about it is that when Elizabeth Taylor is browsing for books at Copenhagen (?) airport, her hand reaches out for one of my favourite - but least-known - novels of the 1960s. @quantick.bsky.social @iammilliam.bsky.social
To me Private Eye's take on what this place is like is far more accurate
I've never actually heard this but I think it must qualify despite having its origins in a pre-existing TV character. Any comedy album that features Annie Whitehead, Jimmy Hastings, Pip Pyle and Dave Stewart has to have something going for it surely?
Love The Lady Vanishes? Night Train to Munich? Murder on the Orient Express? Come and see ROME EXPRESS, the film which kicked off the genre. Introduced by a conversation between me and some little-known writer called Kazuo Ishiguro. Bfi Southbank, July 21st. Book here: tinyurl.com/yh2pz72b
Marvellous! I'm particularly fond of his Symphony No. Phwoar ... A fun fact, incidentally, is that Honegger was the only member of Les Six whose number Ravel had in his phone book. Here it is if you fancy giving him a call ...
Delighted to see that @stuartmaconie.bsky.social's prog Prom will feature Gentle Giant's On Reflection - an amazing piece of fugal writing from the great Kerry Minnear. Also that @sofasound.bsky.social will be performing. Hope it will be on TV as I left it too late to get tickets ...
Book your tickets for the Rome Express, the grand-daddy of all train films, at the BFI Southbank on 21st July. Introduced by one of the world's greatest writers. (Kazuo Ishiguro, I mean. I will also be speaking.)
Very much enjoying Criminal Record on Apple TV. Peter Capaldi is especially brilliant as the saturnine, morally-ambiguous detective with his famous catchphrase ... ... 'You must go on. I can't go on. I'll go on.'
Not to be confused with the simultaneous (and imaginatively titled) 'A Collection of Stories'.
So, I seem to have written yet another novel. I really don’t know how this keeps happening.
AI's most spectacular inaccuracy about one of my books remains this effort from Musk's Grokipedia. (I have indeed written a book called 'Like a Fiery Elephant', but it's a biography of the experimental novelist B S Johnson.)
My novel BOURNVILLE is available digitally on Amazon or (for the Bezos-phobic) Kobo for £0.99 this month. An attempt to look in a serio-comic way at issues of English national identity, WW2 mythologising, Royal family worship and other things that have brought us to the state we're currently in.
This morning's book post. The English translation of Aymeric Leroy's exhaustive history of the Canterbury scene has been a long time coming (ten years in fact), but here it finally is - all 643 pages of it!
Re: my last RT, I think we should all take a moment to reflect on how very bizarre it is that this chain of cafés came into being in Orban's Budapest.
Exhibit B, this guy who thinks that Armageddon is preferable to trans visibility.
Almost as inspiring as ‘Maters, Taters and Grits’ by this American poet.
Only 99p on Kindle today: my eleventh novel, the imaginatively-named Number 11. (Which, in order to achieve better sales, I should really have called What a Carve Up 2: the Return of the Winshaws.) This is the one Ken Loach read and said he wouldn't film because 'I don't really do giant spiders'.
Different from the horrible Manor Farm story, but still a symptom of changing attitudes that, back in 1965, schoolgirls setting up a brothel for the boys at a neighbouring school was considered a witty theme for a West End musical.
Been going through some old books and found this historical artefact from the analogue days of book reviewing.
Here to wish a happy 25th birthday to one of my own novels! The Rotters' Club, published 22 February 2001. None of us are getting any younger ...