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The Book of Coventry

The Book of Coventry
  • Author(s): Raef Boylan (Editor)
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Short Stories
  • Era(s): Various

Part of Comma’s popular ‘Reading the City’ series, offering a literary guide to one of the UK’s most overlooked but fascinating modern cities. Featuring 11 stories by contemporary and classic 20th century writers, including award-winning fantasy author Graham Joyce,...

So Many Ways to Begin

So Many Ways to Begin
  • Author(s): Jon McGregor
  • Location(s): Aberdeen, County Donegal, Coventry
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): 1950s onward

The book follows a Museum Curator and adopted son through his life. Forgotten times, post war Britain, this is a piecing together of one life through mementos past and present. A life set in the context of history.

Working Wonders

Working Wonders
  • Author(s): Jenny Colgan
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Modern

Arthur Pendleton has led an unexciting life, working as a town planner and slowly realising that his life holds few surprises. Then he encounters the head of a team of management consultants, the beguiling and beautiful Gwyneth Morgan, a...

A Quiet Contagion

A Quiet Contagion
  • Author(s): Jane Jesmond
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical
  • Era(s): Contemporary / 1957

Six decades. Seven people. One unspeakable secret. 1957. A catastrophe occurs at the pharmaceutical lab in Coventry where sixteen-year-old Wilf is working for the summer. A catastrophe that needs to be covered up at all costs.2017. Phiney is shocked...

Chinglish

Chinglish
  • Author(s): Sue Cheng
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Young Adult
  • Era(s): 1980s

It is difficult trying to talk in our family cos: a) Grandparents don’t speak English at all b) Mum hardly speaks any English c) Me, Bonny and Simon hardly speak Chinese d) Dad speaks Chinese and good English –...

Ghost Town

Ghost Town
  • Author(s): Catriona Troth
  • Location(s): Coventry
  • Genre(s): Fiction
  • Era(s): 1981

1981. Coventry, city of Two Tone and Ska, is riven with battles between skinheads and young Asians. Photographer Baz – ‘too Paki to be white, too gora to be desi’ – is capturing the conflict on film. Unemployed graduate...

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