Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe At Humber Mouth Festival on 19 June 2006 Born (1961-08-19) 19 August 1961 (age 53) Bromsgrove, England, UK Occupation Novelist Nationality British Period 1987–present Genre Satire Jonathan Coe (born 19 August 1961) is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources which was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's right wing Conservative governments of the 1980s.