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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. 1

    The Rotters' Club

    • 416 pages
    • 15 hours of reading
    4.0(9326)Add rating

    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' Club
  2. 2

    The closed circle

    • 432 pages
    • 16 hours of reading
    3.8(267)Add rating

    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 circle
  3. 3

    Middle England

    • 432 pages
    • 16 hours of reading
    3.9(9271)Add rating

    Beginning eight years ago on the outskirts of Birmingham, where car factories have been replaced by Poundland, and London, where frenzied riots give way to Olympic fever, Middle England follows a brilliantly vivid cast of characters through a time of immense change. There are newlyweds Ian and Sophie, who disagree about the future of the country and, possibly, the future of their relationship; Doug, the political commentator who writes impassioned columns about austerity from his Chelsea townhouse, and his radical teenage daughter who will stop at nothing in her quest for social justice; Benjamin Trotter, who embarks on an apparently doomed new career in middle age, and his father Colin, whose last wish is to vote in the European referendum. And within all these lives is the story of modern England- a story of nostalgia and delusion; of bewilderment and barely-suppressed rage. Following in the footsteps of The Rotters' Club and The Closed Circle, Jonathan Coe's new novel is the novel for our strange new times.

    Middle England