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Nov 7, 2024 | waterstones.com | Mark Skinner |Jonathan Coe |Vesna Goldsworthy |Cecile Pin

Posted on 7th November 2024 by Mark Skinner The Proof of My Innocence – the new, bitingly funny novel from the author of The Rotter's Club and Middle England – blends murder mystery, coming-of-age story, dark academia and sublimely sharp political commentary to unputdownable effect. In this exclusive piece, Jonathan Coe shares his top five political novels of all time. Iron Curtain by Vesna Goldsworthy ‘Political’ novels come in all shapes, sizes and forms. We could be talking sexual...

May 5, 2023 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Cecile Pin

Wandering Souls tells the story of three siblings who escape the communist regime in Vietnam and eventually settle in England among fellow Vietnamese expats. Anh and her younger brothers Minh and Thanh flee South Vietnam on a boat in 1978 (when Anh is all of 16 years old), three years after the North Vietnamese won the war and seized the country.