Your holiday reading list: chosen by Zadie Smith, David Nicholls and more
Leading authors including Bernardine Evaristo, Armistead Maupin and Alice Roberts recommend books to read this summer
August 2023
Books interview
Jonathan Coe: ‘People say, where’s the anger? It’s still there’
‘Can I bring my switch?’: A family holiday throws up existential questions
June 2023
Summer books: Zadie Smith, Ian Rankin, Richard Osman and others pick their favourites
Leading authors recommend the best recent books, from a forbidden love affair at the Western Front to a murder mystery set in Egypt
December 2022
Down the rabbit hole
What links Netflix’s Kaleidoscope to Jonathan Coe and Bryan Cranston?
A chain of connections that starts and finishes with the random-order eight-part crime thriller
November 2022
Book of the day
Bournville by Jonathan Coe review – a bittersweet slice of Britishness
Coe is a compassionate witness to key moments in the life of a family and a nation
October 2022
Bournville by Jonathan Coe review – hugely impressive state-of-the-nation tale
Jonathan Coe: ‘We’re a nation driven by emotion and not by reason’
June 2022
How the acclaimed Billy Wilder tried and failed to snub Hollywood
The new film Mr Wilder & Me reveals how a search for funding led the director on an uneasy journey back to the central Europe he fled
July 2021
Jonathan Coe on The Rotters’ Club: ‘My diary provided endless material, but I didn’t like the person I was’
The author on mixing semi-fact with fiction – and the school rule about swimming naked that inspired the novel’s big comedy set piece
June 2021
In brief: Black Water Sister; Mr Wilder & Me; Teach Yourself to Sleep – reviews
A graduate is haunted by the voice of her grandmother, Jonathan Coe examines fame through a film director, and Kate Mikhail wants to send us to sleep
November 2020
Lockdown culture
Culture to cheer you up during the second lockdown: part one
As parts of the UK enters another month – at least – of being stuck indoors, our critics pick out top music, games, books, TV, dance and art fixes to lift your spirits
Book of the day
Mr Wilder & Me by Jonathan Coe review – the director's cut
A young woman finds herself on the set of Billy Wilder’s 1978 film Fedora, in Coe’s love letter to the spirit of cinema
Lockdown culture
What a Carve Up! review – ingenious and gripping reimagining of Coe's novel
Beginning at the end, Jonathan Coe’s novel about the scheming Winshaws is turned into an audacious investigative whodunnit
October 2020
Jonathan Coe: 'It’s the point in your life at which you start asking yourself, what next?'
Mr Wilder & Me by Jonathan Coe review – satisfyingly sweeping
February 2020
Book clinic
Book clinic: what can I read after work instead of watching TV?
From Jane Austen to medical memoirs, books that will help leave thoughts of the office behind
January 2020
The Guardian Books podcast
Jonathan Coe and Sara Collins on their Costa-winning novels – books podcast
We welcome not one but two Costa winners, as the victors in the novel and the debut fiction categories join us in the studio
On my radar
On my radar: Jonathan Coe’s cultural highlights
The comic novelist on the genius of jazz organist Barbara Dennerlein and his love of Munich
Jonathan Coe wins Costa prize for ‘perfect’ Brexit novel
Middle England’s EU referendum story secures the 2019 novel award and goes up against first fiction, poetry and biography for Costa book of the year
