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Suggested reading from critics and editors at The New York Times.

Jonathan Coe’s finest fiction consists of riotous comedies or scalpel-sharp satires about British lives and the state of the nation. The Birmingham-born writer’s 1994 breakthrough novel, The Winshaw Legacy, set during the Thatcher era, charted the lurid excesses and the rapacious exploits of an upper-class family — “the meanest, greediest, cruelest bunch of back-stabbing bastards who ever crawled across the face of the earth.” His 2013 thriller-farce, Expo 58, explored national identity in the postwar years through characters caught up in “a frenzy of head-scratching and soul-searc...

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Big Issue books editor Jane Graham's definitive list of the must read books you need to add to your reading pile this season

Jonathan Coe’s novel “Mr. Wilder and Me” explores the late career of a legendary Hollywood director.