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Bourneville

Fiction’s big names – from Ian McEwan to Cormac McCarthy – disappointed this year, but a brilliant new generation are taking their place

This week’s bookcase includes reviews of The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer and Bournville by Jonathan Coe. 

Bob Mortimer’s first foray into fiction is a hit… Fiction 1. The Satsuma Complex by Bob Mortimer is published in hardback by Gallery UK, priced &po...

The novelist’s piercing satire charts 75 years of British history, ending with a righteously angry attack on the inhumanity of Covid laws.

Coe is a compassionate witness to key moments in the life of a family and a nation

The arch-Europhile examines Britain’s postwar history through the eyes of a Birmingham clan in this warm and poignant novel featuring several familiar characters

LITERARY FICTION: The first novel from Cormac McCarthy since his desolate masterpiece The Road won the Pulitzer Prize 15 years ago is both a Big Event and an anticlimax.

Coe uses the Cadbury factory's model village to satirise social types since 1945. If only the jokes outnumbered the clichés

Freedom to write what you like and a chance to build an army of followers, some of whom will pay to read your posts. It worked for Salman Rushdie, so Tim Lott decided to give it a go