The Closed Circle

8 best books like The Closed Circle (Jonathan Coe): Big Sky, The Wall, Cold Hands, Sweet Sorrow, The Cockroach, Manituana, Morgana. Storie di ragazze che tua madre non approverebbe, Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain

Big Sky
AuthorKate Atkinson
Jackson Brodie, ex-military police, ex-Cambridge Constabulary, currently working as a private investigator, makes a highly anticipated return, nine years after the last Brodie, Started Early, Took My Dog.

Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company...
The Wall
AuthorJohn Lanchester
ISBN1324001631
Longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2019

Ravaged by the Change, an island nation in a time very like our own has built the Wall―an enormous concrete barrier around its entire coastline. Joseph Kavanagh, a new Defender, has one task: to protect his section of the Wall from the Others, the desperate...
Cold Hands
AuthorJohn Niven
ISBN0434022128
You thought you could leave the past behind.

Think again.

Donnie Miller counts himself lucky. Living in a beautiful, spacious house in the wild and remote landscape of central Canada, he spends his days writing for the local newspaper, working on a film script, and acting as house-husband....
Sweet Sorrow
AuthorDavid Nicholls
ISBN1444715410
One life-changing summer
Charlie meets Fran...

In 1997, Charlie Lewis is the kind of boy you don't remember in the school photograph. His exams have not gone well. At home he is looking after his father, when surely it should be the other way round, and if he thinks about the future at all,...
The Cockroach
AuthorIan McEwan
That morning, Jim Sams, clever but by no means profound, woke from uneasy dreams to find himself transformed into a gigantic creature.

Jim Sams has undergone a metamorphosis. In his previous life he was ignored or loathed, but in his new incarnation he is the most powerful man in Britain –...
Manituana
AuthorWu Ming
ISBN8806185845
1775 all'alba della rivoluzione che generò gli Stati Uniti d'America. Lealisti e ribelli si contendono l'alleanza delle Sei Nazioni irochesi, la più potente confederazione indiana. Nella valle del fiume Mohawk, indigeni e coloni convivono da decenni. Scelte laceranti travolgono il futuro...
Morgana. Storie di ragazze che tua madre non approverebbe
AuthorMichela Murgia
ISBN8804717114
Moana Pozzi, Santa Caterina, Grace Jones, le sorelle Brontë, Moira Orfei, Tonya Harding, Marina Abramovic, Shirley Temple, Vivienne Westwood, Zaha Hadid. Morgana non è un catalogo di donne esemplari; al contrario, sono streghe per le donne stesse, irriducibili anche agli schemi della donna...
Heroic Failure: Brexit and the Politics of Pain
AuthorFintan O'Toole
'There will not be much political writing in this or any other year that is carried off with such style' The Times. In exploring the answers to the question: 'why did Britain vote leave?', Fintan O'Toole finds himself discovering how trivial journalistic lies became far from trivial national obsessions;...
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