Jonathan Coe's Seven Favourite Political Novels
By Viking Books UK
Jonathan Coe's Seven Favourite Political Novels
By Viking Books UK
To celebrate the publication of The Proof of my Innocence, Jonathan Coe has curated a list of his favourite political novels.
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1982, Janine
Alasdair Gray
£10.99 £10.44Few books capture the spirit of the early Thatcher years in such a savage, melancholy and formally innovative way as this masterwork by the author of Poor Things.
Good As Gold
Joseph Heller
£16.99 £16.14Laugh-out-loud take on internal White House politics which frequently reaches the heights of Catch-22. Essential reading in the run-up to November’s US election.
Beasts Of England
Adam Biles
£10.99 £10.44A lively re-imagination of Orwell’s classic Animal Farm, updated to the age of Brexit and social media.
Beloved
Toni Morrison
£9.99 £9.49The abominable legacy of slavery, explored through the maternal bonds between a formerly enslaved woman and her children. A towering masterpiece.
Gulliver's Travels: and Alexander Pope's Verses on Gulliver's Travels
Jonathan Swift
£6.99 £6.64The greatest political satire of them all. Brutal, unsparing, and determined to leave the reader feeling deeply uncomfortable. Not a children’s book.
Perfidious Albion
Sam Byers
£10.99 £10.44Marketed as a ‘Brexit novel’ on publication, Byers’ dark and thoughtful satire is more than that: a meditation on how demagoguery can take root at any time, in any place.
The Lie of the Land: A very good read indeed' Matt Haig
Amanda Craig
£9.99 £9.49One of the widest political divides in Britain today – between the metropolis and the rural provinces – is brilliantly dramatised by one of our best state-of-the-nation novelists.