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Rotters' Club Series

This series follows a group of friends who, after the dissolution of their beloved club, resort to unconventional methods to rediscover their connection. Dive into coming-of-age stories filled with loss and the search for new meaning in life. It's a poignant and at times unsettling exploration of friendship and the complexities of human relationships. These works examine how to cope with the past and find one's own path forward.

Middle England
The closed circle
The Rotters' Club

Recommended Reading Order

  1. The Rotters' Club

    • 416 pages
    • 15 hours of reading

    Unforgettably funny and painfully honest, Jonathan Coe's tale of Benjamin Trotter and his friends' coming of age during the 1970s is a heartfelt celebration of the joys and agonies of growing up. Featuring, among other things, IRA bombs, prog rock, punk rock, bad poetry, first love, love on the side, prefects, detention, a few bottles of Blue Nun, lots of brown wallpaper, industrial strife, and divine intervention in the form of a pair of swimming trunks. Set against the backdrop of the decade's class struggles, tragic and riotous by turns, packed with thwarted romance and furtive sex, The Rotters' Club is for anyone who ever experienced adolescence the hard way.

    The Rotters' Club1
    4.0

  2. The closed circle

    • 432 pages
    • 16 hours of reading

    Set against the backdrop of the Millenium celebrations and Britain's increasingly compromised role in America's war against terrorism', The Closed Circle lifts the lid on an era in which politics and presentation, ideology and the media have become virtually indistinguishable.

    The closed circle2
    3.8

  3. Middle England

    Set in the Midlands and London over the last eight years, Jonathan Coe follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change and disruption in Britain. There are the early married years of Sophie and Ian who disagree about the future of Britain and, possibly, the future of their relationship; Sophie's grandfather whose final act is to send a postal vote for the European referendum; Doug, the political commentator, whose young daughter despairs of his lack of political nous and Doug's Remaining Tory politician partner who is savaged by the crazed trolls of Twitter. And within all these lives is the story of England itself: a story of nostalgia and irony; of friendship and rage, humour and intense bewilderment. As acutely alert to the absurdity of the political classes as he is compassionate about those who have been left behind, this is a novel Jonathan Coe was born to write.

    Middle England3
    3.9