{"id":7512,"date":"2025-02-22T15:33:43","date_gmt":"2025-02-22T15:33:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=7512"},"modified":"2025-03-26T14:09:37","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T14:09:37","slug":"2025-saturday-10-00am-jonathan-coe","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/montylitfest.com\/?page_id=7512","title":{"rendered":"2025 Saturday – 10.00am Jonathan Coe"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In conversation with Jonathan Coe<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>

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Date:\u00a0 Saturday 7th June 2025<\/strong><\/p>

Venue:\u00a0 Montgomery Town Hall<\/strong><\/p>

Time:\u00a0 10.00-10.45am<\/strong><\/p>

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Monty Lit Fest is delighted to welcome to Montgomeryshire the award-winning, bestselling author, Jonathan Coe.<\/p>

Join us to hear about his writing life as the author of satirical, often funny books that explore the best and worst of British social and political life, including the much-loved The Rotters’ Club, Middle England, Bournville <\/em>and 2024\u2019s The Proof of My Innocence<\/em>, a cosy crime mystery – but not, of course, as we know it.<\/p>

\u00a0<\/strong>Jonathan Coe<\/strong> was born in Birmingham in 1961. He is the award-winning, bestselling author of novels that include\u00a0What a Carve Up!; The Rotters\u2019 Club; Middle England; Bournville<\/em> and 2024\u2019s The Proof of My Innocence<\/em>. He has won\u00a0the Costa Novel Award, the Prix du Livre Europ\u00e9en, the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, the Prix M\u00e9dicis \u00c9tranger and the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize, among many others. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His work has been translated into 22 languages.\u00a0Suspended Moment<\/em>, an album of his musical compositions recorded live in Italy, was released on the British Progressive Jazz label in 2023.<\/p>

Michele O\u2019Leary<\/strong> is now retired and living in Pembrokeshire, but for 41 years she practised as a barrister and, for the last 21, sat as a fee-paid judge at the Central Family Court in London. She became a Master of the Bench of Lincoln\u2019s Inn in 2007 and has been heavily involved in advocacy training in the UK and internationally. She continues to teach advocacy in Keble College and Lincoln\u2019s Inn and enjoys being close to the Irish Sea. Preferably only in it in the summer. She has known Jonathan Coe since they both had real colour in their hair.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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\u00a0 In conversation with Jonathan Coe with Michele O’Leary Date:\u00a0 Saturday 7th June 2025 Venue:\u00a0 Montgomery Town Hall Time:\u00a0 10.00-10.45am Tickets:\u00a0 \u00a39.00 Monty Lit Fest is delighted to welcome to Montgomeryshire the award-winning, bestselling author, Jonathan Coe. Join us to hear about his writing life as the author of satirical, often funny books that explore …<\/p>\n

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