Category: Jonathan Coe

Lessons in Harmony by Jonathan Coe review – what can music tell us about national identity?

by The Guardian | Nov 10, 2026 | Books, Classical music, Culture, Fiction, Jonathan Coe, Music, The Guardian | 0 |

The unlikely friendship between French and English composers Maurice Ravel and Ralph Vaughan Williams has inspired a tender and generous novelIn 1907, composer Ralph Vaughan Williams confided to the critic Edwin Evans that he...

‘This extraordinary story never goes out of fashion’: 30 authors on the books they give to everyone

by The Guardian | Dec 13, 2025 | Ali Smith, Books, Children and teenagers, Christmas, Colm Tóibín, Culture, Diana Evans, Elif Shafak, Fiction, Jeanette Winterson, Jonathan Coe, Kamila Shamsie, Katherine Rundell, Max Porter, Michael Rosen, Nikesh Shukla, Nina Stibbe, Poetry, Robert Macfarlane, Sarah Moss, Science and nature books, Tessa Hadley, The Guardian, William Boyd | 0 |

Colm Tóibín, Robert Macfarlane, Elif Shafak, Michael Rosen and more share the novels, poetry and memoirs that make the perfect giftI love giving books as presents. I rarely give anything else. I strongly approve of the Icelandic...