{"product_id":"proof-of-my-innocence-jonathan-coe-9780241678411","title":"Proof of My Innocence","description":"'The premier satirist of great British crapness is on killer form in this gag-a-minute mystery' Observer\n'A new Jonathan Coe is always a treat... Coe is a master at exploring the pains of modern life' The Times\n---\nPost-university life doesn’t suit Phyl. Time passes slowly living back home with her parents, working a zero-hour contract serving Japanese food to holidaymakers at Heathrow’s Terminal 5. As for her budding plans of becoming a writer, those are going nowhere.\nThat is, until family friend Chris comes to stay. He’s been on the path to uncover a sinister think-tank, founded at Cambridge University in the 1980s, that’s been scheming to push the British government in a more extreme direction. One that’s finally poised to put their plans into action.\nBut speaking truth to power can be dangerous - and power will stop at nothing to stay on top.\nAs Britain finds itself under the leadership of a new Prime Minister whose tenure will only last for seven weeks, Chris pursues his story to a conference being held deep in the Cotswolds, where events take a sinister turn and a murder enquiry is soon in progress. But will the solution to the mystery lie in contemporary politics, or in a literary enigma that is almost forty years old?\nDarting between decades and genres, THE PROOF OF MY INNOCENCE is a wickedly funny and razor-sharp new novel from one of Britain’s most beloved novelists, showing how the key to understanding the present can often be found in the murkiest corners of the past.\n---\n'Full of energy... a madcap caper, a sideways memoir, a tricky jeu d'esprit that is also a quiet defence of fiction in a post-truth age, and enormous fun to read' Guardian\n'Deeply pleasurable, and a lot of fun. You emerge from it glowing' iPaper\n'Fantastic, wickedly funny and gripping. Coe has written a beautifully crafted mystery that dovetails as a sharp, smart, state of the nation' Simon McCleave\n'I was delighted... it's clever and political - while also being very funny' John Self","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49487628239136,"sku":"9780241678411","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0753\/2812\/7264\/files\/9780241678411.jpg?v=1785298083","url":"https:\/\/bookcorner.com\/products\/proof-of-my-innocence-jonathan-coe-9780241678411","provider":"The Book Corner","version":"1.0","type":"link"}